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BMJ (company)

BMJ is a British publisher of medical journals, and healthcare knowledge provider of clinical decision tools, online educational resources, and events. Established in 1840, the company is owned by the British Medical Association. The company was branded as BMJ Group until 2013.[1]

Parent company

British Medical Association

1840

United Kingdom

London

Medical journals

bmj.com/company

1840: (later renamed the British Medical Journal) first published

Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal

1847: uses the journal to publicise chloroform, which paved the way for modern anaesthetic techniques

James Simpson

1867: publishes his introduction to the concept of antiseptic in wound healing[2]

Joseph Lister

1950: publishes his discovery of the link between tobacco consumption and lung cancer[3]

Richard Doll

1958: publishes her study of the risks of low-level radiation[4]

Alice Stewart

1995: First website

1865–71: – BMJ was largely responsible for the Infant Life Protection Act of 1872, directed against the lucrative practice of baby farming. The BMJ led a series of exposures which forced an inquiry into the state of London's work-house infirmaries.[5]

Baby farming

BMJ Open

BMJ academic journals

of which BMJ is a member

Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association