Medical Journal of Australia

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History

Early origins

The journal was established in 1856, when communication between Australian states and other English-speaking nations entailed long delays. [3] The journal was both a platform for Australian medical research, as well as educational reviews summarising research done overseas. It has since been renamed several times: [3] [4]

MJA today

The current editor of the MJA - appointed in 2023 - is Virginia Barbour.

Elsevier

In 2015, then editor-in-chief Stephen Leeder was suddenly removed after criticising the decision to outsource production of the journal to the global publishing giant Elsevier. [6] Leeder's concerns revolved around an incident in 2009 when Elsevier accepted payments from pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. to publish journals such as the Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine , which had the appearance of peer-reviewed academic works but were in fact promoting Merck. [7] [8] [9] [10] Following the decision to sack Leeder, all but one of the journal's editorial advisory committee resigned and wrote to Australian Medical Association president Brian Owler asking him to review the decision. [11] [12]

Nicholas Talley succeeded Stephen Leeder as editor-in-chief in September 2015 [13] and the editorial advisory group was subsequently reconstituted. [14]

Wiley

From January 2019, the journal is published by Wiley. [15] Print distribution remains with the Australasian Medical Publishing Company and editorial direction and decisions remain with the journal. [15]

Publishing and access

Having previously published under a subscription model, the journal changed in January 2012 to make all of its research articles free to read online. [16] The journal converted to a hybrid model in January 2019: Authors can either pay an article processing fee to publish fully open access (gold open access) or archive the submitted version of their article in online repositories (green open access). [16] In order to demonstrate commitment to Australian Indigenous health and health awareness, the journal makes all Indigenous health articles free to access without charging authors. [16]

MJA InSight+

MJA InSight+ is a newsletter for medical professionals produced by the MJA. Articles are primarily written by in-house journalists and doctors. It has the largest medical-newsletter subscription membership in Australia.

MJA InSight is published by the Australasian Medical Publishing Company, the publishers of the MJA. The newsletter informs clinicians of key developments and research in medicine and health. [17] [18] [19]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal had a 2022 impact factor of 11.4, ranking it 17th out of 167 in the category "General and Internal Medicine". [26]

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