Advancing how real world impact is assessed
Award-winning BMJ Impact Analytics* is the most up-to-date and comprehensive tool you can use to track and share the real-world impact of your medical and health research. If you fund, publish or produce research or policy, BMJ Impact Analytics tracks where it’s cited in Clinical Guidance and Health Policy worldwide.
It is the only tool in the market dedicated to health and social care, covering the greatest breadth of key medical sources. BMJ Impact Analytics uniquely shows the influence of research on patient care by citing BMJ Best Practice, BMJ Group’s leading decision support tool, trusted by over 1 million healthcare professionals worldwide at the point of care.
*BMJ Impact Analytics received the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2023
Search across over 19M health-related documents from 47,000+ organizations and over 3,000 sources worldwide.
4 reasons why BMJ Impact Analytics is unique
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Only tool focused on health and social care covering the greatest breadth of key medical sources
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Uniquely demonstrates how research influences patient care, showing citations in local guidelines, care pathways, and BMJ Best Practice – the leading clinical decision support tool used by healthcare professionals at the point of care.
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Provides context to impact in all document sources
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Easy to use and extensively tested – developed in collaboration with medical departments at universities and funders of medical research
Our main use case was to demonstrate impact internally to Boards in what is turning out to be a really challenging
time for funding. It also helped elevate both the level and depth of discussions around impact and how research impact is demonstrated.”
Key features include
Intuitive interface
Extensively tested with medical funders and adapted to how you want to search, find and analyse results.
Save time and effort
Access citations of your impact in context, data visualisations, saved searches and alerts to keep you updated with the latest citations relevant to your research. Easily track the impact of your open access research, white papers and laws.
Access data on the influence of research in patient care
Results include citations in local guidelines, care pathways, and BMJ Best Practice, BMJ’s leading clinical decision support tool.
Focus on the real-world impact that matters the most to you
Use our advanced analytics functionality and gain deeper insights. Includes: disambiguation pages for authors and institutions, functionality to analyse health policy and clinical guidance separately, identify impact on policy linked to the SDGs, and more.
Our commitment to responsible metrics
As a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), BMJ supports using multiple measures and metrics to portray impact. Across our products, where relevant, we are committed to abiding by DORA’s framework.
What does this mean for data in BMJ Impact Analytics?
We are open and transparent about the scope of our data and its limitations. Our Responsible Metrics feature provides you with detailed information on the caveats and limitations of the data so that you can understand how to interpret the evidence of real word impact.
For more detailed information, please get in touch with us.
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.
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.
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. ”
Tim Watson, Director of Marketing & Communications, Office of Health Economics (OHE)