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BMC Medical Research Methodology
Mathematics and statisticsOpen accessIn DOAJ
Among the 50 mathematics and statistics journals in this index it has the 18th highest h-index and the 5th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 1 208 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| United States | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 22% |
| Germany | 14% |
| China | 13% |
| Canada | 9% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 91% |
| Reviews | 6% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials | 15% |
| Meta-analysis and systematic reviews | 14% |
| Advanced Causal Inference Techniques | 9% |
| Statistical Methods in Epidemiology | 7% |
| Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference | 6% |
| Ethics in Clinical Research | 3% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Meta-analysis accelerator: a comprehensive tool for statistical data conversion in systematic reviews with meta-analysis (2024, 266 citations)
- Methods of determining optimal cut-point of diagnostic biomarkers with application of clinical data in ROC analysis: an update review (2024, 204 citations)
- Comparison of the effects of imputation methods for missing data in predictive modelling of cohort study datasets (2024, 142 citations)
- The proper application of logistic regression model in complex survey data: a systematic review (2025, 130 citations)
- CHARMS and PROBAST at your fingertips: a template for data extraction and risk of bias assessment in systematic reviews of predictive models (2023, 123 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 1471-2288):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
Similar journals
- Statistics in Medicine
- Biometrics
- Biometrika
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Econometrica
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