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A pioneer of sustainable open access, where research is always in progress.
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BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing. We’re committed to innovation in research publishing to support the needs of our communities and ensure the integrity of the research we publish.
Our leading research journals include selective broad interest titles such as Genome Biology and Genome Medicine, academic journals such as Malaria Journal and Microbiome and the BMC series, 65 inclusive journals focused on the needs of individual research communities. We also partner with leading institutions and societies to publish journals on their behalf.
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This is BMC's profile photo consistency across the legit accounts tracked by NotCommon. Scammers often take advantage of the lack of consistency across an entity's accounts, so the more profile photos are the same, the better.
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