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Reasons to submit your next research manuscript to Breast Cancer Research

• Rapid peer review
  Our insistence on fast and thorough peer review enables us to process manuscripts quickly; on average, initial decisions are reached within 6 weeks of submission.
  
  
• Publication immediately on acceptance
  All research articles are published and receive their final citations details on the day they are accepted. Fully copyedited and formatted versions of the article replace the accepted manuscript within 4 weeks. Within 48 hours of publication, your article will be listed in PubMed, bringing your work to its intended audience as quickly as possible.
  
  
• Highly cited
  Breast Cancer Research has an Impact Factor of 4.16, and recent studies have suggested that on average open access articles are more frequently accessed and twice as likely to be cited as those published behind subscription barriers.
  
  
• Open access
  All research published in Breast Cancer Research is open access (i.e. freely available on the journal website, with the copyright retained by the author). Research articles are deposited in at least one widely and internationally recognized open access repository such as PubMed Central, complying with the NIH Public Access Policy and the Wellcome Trust Open Access Policy. . To cover the cost of open access publishing we levy an article-processing charge. For more information, please see our frequently asked questions.
  
  
• High visibility within the field
  Your work is freely accessible to a global audience, and over 90,000 articles are downloaded from the Breast Cancer Research website each month. All articles are indexed in PubMed/Medline and many other services. Articles of special interest are press-released to the worldwide news media or highlighted in related commentaries.
  
  
• No page or figure limits
  Breast Cancer Research does not charge extra for longer articles, and any number of colour figures can be published with no additional cost to the standard article-processing charge. Large data sets can be published as additional files and movies or animation can also be included.

For further information please contact the Editorial Office.