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Editorial
The new BMJOpenSport&ExerciseMedicine in the everchanging publishing landscape
  1. Emmanuel Stamatakis
  1. Charles Perkins Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis; emmanuel.stamatakis{at}sydney.edu.au

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjsem-2019-000603

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    BMJOpenSport&Exercise Medicine (BMJ OpenSEM) is a young and credible open access (OA) journal that has constantly been growing since its inception in 2015. In its first 4 years, it has received submissions from 46 countries and it becomes more international year on year (figure 1). I feel both privileged and responsible to lead BMJ OpenSEM through its maturation phase as its second Editor in Chief. As with most ‘sister’ OA journals, BMJ OpenSEM has been a great destination for worthy sports and exercise manuscripts which, despite their good quality, cannot fit in the limited space of hybrid journals such as the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). BJSM accepts only 6%–8% of original research papers and around 20% of systematic review submissions.

    Figure 1

    BMJOpenSport &ExerciseMedicine papers submitted from different parts of the world.

    Expanded scope

    The ambition of the current phase of growth of BMJ OpenSEM is to be a lot more than a destination for manuscripts that ‘cascade’ from BJSM and possibly other similar journals. The ‘new BMJ OpenSEM’ …

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