… the review process for articles in two medical journals, using in-depth qualitative analysis of
… The latter information was retrieved from the editors’ decision letters. For the BMJ, we also …

… considered a qualitative research approach to be best suited for our study aim. We therefore
set out to interview journal editors. Our decision to focus on the journal editors’ perspective …

… BMJ Open Respiratory Research is already fully open access, so all content is accessible
… following editorial and peer review. The journal publishes a wide range of original research …

… research in The BMJ is published with open access. Our open access policy is detailed
here: http://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-authors/forms-policies-andchecklists/copyright-…

… that open research practices do not (even inadvertently) exclude qualitative research, and
that qualitative researchers reflect on how we can meaningfully engage with open science in …

… It is important to establish whether the discrepancies we found in BMJ letters to the editor
are present in other journals, and for other scientific manuscript types such as original research…

… that we are passionate qualitative researchers with a history … , BMC Family Practice and
BMJ Open. We then analysed the … to editors is a difficult one, because as editors ourselves we …

… Design/methodology/approach In this research, the authors selected 3,329 valid comments
on articles published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) from 2015 to 2020 as the research …

… The qualitative analysis further identified key debates and areas of uncertainty for … This
paper reports the findings from the qualitative study that underpinned the Delphi exercise and …

… Our study setting was BMJ Open as in the … QUT research team received author contact
details after they opted in to be a part of this study upon submission of their paper to BMJ Open …