BiomedicalPublications

RMD Open

BMJ·United Kingdom·ISSN 2056-5933

Open accessIn DOAJFee waivers availableMedicine

Cost to publish

$2,391

Open-access article processing charge, list price.

Time to publication

19 wks

Broadly typical for the field.

h-index

86

OpenAlex citation statistic. Not a Journal Impact Factor.

2-year mean citedness

4.9

Average citations to articles from the previous two years.

What it costs to publish here

Publishing an open-access article in RMD Open is listed at $2,391. The publisher also lists 1,950 GBP. The journal reports that fee waivers are available — worth pursuing if you are funding this yourself or working from a lower-income country.

The journal's own fee page →

Peer review and licensing

Review modelAnonymous peer review (policy)
LicenceCC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND
Author keeps copyrightNo
Plagiarism screeningYes
Editorial boardPublished →
LanguagesEN

Verification checks

8 of 8 confirmed

These are facts we could verify in public records, not a verdict. A journal missing a check is not necessarily disreputable — many long-established subscription journals sit outside the open-access registries entirely. Use them as questions to ask, and confirm anything that matters directly with the journal before you submit.

  • Listed in the Directory of Open Access JournalsDOAJ applies a documented set of inclusion criteria.
  • Included in OpenAlex's curated core setOpenAlex flags well-established venues that appear across major indexes.
  • Peer review model publicly declaredAnonymous peer review
  • Publication charges stated up frontA journal that will not tell you the fee before submission is worth a second look.
  • Screens submissions for plagiarismReported to DOAJ by the journal.
  • Participates in a digital preservation schemeArchiving means the record survives if the publisher does not.
  • Assigns persistent identifiers (DOIs)Standard practice; its absence is unusual.
  • Still actively publishingMost recent indexed article: 2026.

Scope

The subjects RMD Open publishes most, derived from the topics assigned to its indexed articles.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and TherapiesSpondyloarthritis Studies and TreatmentsSystemic Lupus Erythematosus ResearchAutoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders ResearchPsoriasis: Treatment and PathogenesisSystemic Sclerosis and Related DiseasesOsteoarthritis Treatment and MechanismsVasculitis and related conditionsSpine and Intervertebral Disc PathologyGout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid

Publication record

Indexed articles2,141
Total citations46,135
i10-index1,138
Most recent indexed article2026
Open access since2015
All ISSNs2056-5933

Counts reflect what OpenAlex has indexed and will differ from the publisher's own figures. We do not show a founding year: OpenAlex's first-publication dates are distorted by mis-dated records — it puts PLoS ONE in 1806 — and we would rather omit a number than print one we cannot stand behind.