Increasing transparency in the British Journal of Nutrition

Recent highly cited articles in the British Journal of Nutrition.

I commented in an Editorial last year on the importance for academic journals of citations and impact factors (Trayhurn, 2002). I noted that a number of articles published by the BJN over the 50þ years of our existence have been very highly cited, the article receiving most citations being that of Durnin & Rahaman (1967). This paper, which has received over 700 citations, was reproduced in the ...

The scope of the British Journal of Nutrition.

The early days of the British Journal of Nutrition.

My first awareness of the British Journal of Nutrition and its production was purely observational and, from the beginning, as a reader. This was followed by a period as a nervous would-be contributor and then by increasing involvement in the editorial process. Although I was working at the National Institute for Research in Dairying during the gestation period, I cannot claim any knowledge of ...

Increasing numbers of citations and higher impact factor in 2012: the British Journal of Nutrition continues to show steady improvement.

In June 2013, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) released its annual assessment of the citation of articles published in scientific journals. These metrics provide valuable insights into the performance of journals both individually and in relation to others publishing similar content in the same field. In order to inform readers about the performance of the British Journal of Nutri...

British Journal of Nutrition (1997), 78, 857-866

Vitamin C intake and susceptibility to the common cold-Invited commentaries Hemilä (1997) has carried out a literature review and a meta-analysis to determine whether there is convincing evidence that supplements of vitamin C can decrease human susceptibility to natural common cold infections. He concludes that although the evidence from six major studies gave no evidence of such benefit, for d...