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BMJ Impact Analytics makes it easy to find, track, and share the real-world impact of research on health and social care. If you fund, publish or produce research or policy, we track where it’s cited in clinical guidance and health policy worldwide.
Identify the impact of your medical research
Extensively tested and developed in collaboration with medical departments at universities and funders of medical research, BMJ Impact Analytics is the only tool focused on health and social care.
Make decisions confidently
With the most comprehensive database of trustworthy citation evidence from clinical, health, medical and policy sources, curated by BMJ’s expert team and updated daily.
Get close to patient care
Inform your research program and funding strategy with the most up-to-date and comprehensive data providing citation results that include local guidelines and tools used by healthcare professionals to deliver care.
Target research funding to influence health outcomes
Track and assess the impact of your medical research and identify gaps.
See your impact in context
Easily see the context and reach of your citations in policy, guidelines and grey literature. Gain insights into the links between policy documents.
Share your impact story
Effortlessly share insights with stakeholders and the public.
New agreement with the Office of Health Economics (OHE) announced
The agreement is set to enhance how the real-world impact of OHE’s health economic research is assessed.
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BMJ Impact Analytics is now available to all Bibliosan members
All institutions within Italy’s national healthcare and research consortium, Bibliosan, now have access to the first research impact tool focused on health and social care.
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BMJ Impact Analytics now available at Baylor College of Medicine
Under this new agreement, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) will have access to BMJ Impact Analytics, reinforcing the university’s commitment to supporting a healthy, responsible impact culture in research.
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Finalists of OpenAthens 2024 UX Award
The awards put the the spotlight on those publishers and library systems vendors that strive to put their users at the heart of their service design with the simple aim of giving users easy access to their content.
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Proud winners of 2023's ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing
This well-known award recognises any new development, product, service, launch or project that is innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.
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Advancing health and social care real-world impact through collaboration
BMJ and Overton created BMJ Impact Analytics to address the exciting opportunities for a more in-depth understanding of medical and health research impact. Our co-development combines Overton’s data knowledge and BMJ’s health expertise to offer the only impact tool focused on health and social care.
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“The adoption of BMJ’s analytics platform enhances BCM’s vision of how we improve health worldwide through scientific scholarship and collaborations across disciplines and groundbreaking initiatives in basic, translational, and clinical research.”
Sheila Ryan, PhD, Assistant Vice President for Clinical Research Initiatives at Baylor College of Medicine
“Understanding the impact of our research on healthcare policy-making globally would be impossible without BMJ Impact Analytics. The scale and depth of information we can access, and the ease with which we can navigate it, is hugely impressive. The value of this tool goes far beyond discovering where we are cited. We see it playing a major role in identifying future collaborators as well as additional avenues for sharing our research. All of this will enhance our ability to make meaningful contributions to the field of healthcare research and positively impact patient care worldwide.”
Tim Watson, Director of Marketing & Communications, OHE
“I would recommend BMJ Impact Analytics to others without hesitation. I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was, and how accurately the program selected only my own publications. This is no small feat since I have a very common name”
Barbara Schmidt, MD, MSc, CM, Professor, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Canada; and Professor Emerita, Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
“ I can see how this could perhaps help us track influence that we hadn’t known about”
UK Medical Charity
“I still keep thinking about how powerful and useful it would be in how we talk about research as well as track activity”
UK Medical Charity
“There’s nothing else like this out there where citations are all in one place”
UK Hospital