The ''Medical Journal of Australia'' is a
peer-reviewed medical journal published 22 times a year. It is the official journal of the
Australian Medical Association, published by
Wiley
Wiley may refer to:
Locations
* Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town
* Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S.
* Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany
People
* Wiley (musician), British grime MC, rapper, and producer
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on behalf of the Australasian Medical Publishing Company.
The journal publishes editorials, original research, guideline summaries, narrative reviews, perspectives, medical education, reflections, and letters. The full text of every issue since January 2002 is available online.
History
Early origins
The journal was established in 1856, when communication between Australian states and other English-speaking nations entailed long delays.
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:
*''Australian Medical Journal'' (1856–1895)
*''Intercolonial Quarterly Journal of Medicine and Surgery'' (1895–1896)
*''Intercolonial Medical Journal of Australasia'' (1896–1909)
*''Australian Medical Journal'' (1910–1914)
*''Medical Journal of Australia'' (1914–present, with volume numbering restarting at 1)
Elsevier
In 2015, then
editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
Stephen Leeder was suddenly removed after criticising the decision to outsource production of the journal to the global publishing giant
Elsevier
Elsevier () is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as '' The Lancet'', ''Cell'', the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, '' Trends'', ...
. Leerder'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
The ''Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine'' (originally titled the ''Australasian Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine'') was a periodical presented in the style of a scientific journal, published by Elsevier but established and funded by ...
'', which had the appearance of peer-reviewed academic works but were in fact promoting Merck.
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
Brian Kenneth Owler is an Australian neurosurgeon who was elected as president of the Australian Medical Association in May 2014. Prior to taking the presidency of the AMA, Owler was president of the AMA (NSW).
Early life and education
Owler ...
asking him to review the decision.
Nicholas Talley succeeded Stephen Leeder as editor-in-chief in September 2015
and the
editorial advisory group was subsequently reconstituted.
Wiley
From January 2019, the journal is published by
Wiley
Wiley may refer to:
Locations
* Wiley, Colorado, a U.S. town
* Wiley, Pleasants County, West Virginia, U.S.
* Wiley-Kaserne, a district of the city of Neu-Ulm, Germany
People
* Wiley (musician), British grime MC, rapper, and producer
* Wiley Mil ...
.
Print distribution remains with the Australasian Medical Publishing Company and editorial direction and decisions remain with the journal.
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.
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
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or Gratis v ...
) or archive the submitted version of their article in online repositories (
green open access
Self-archiving is the act of (the author's) depositing a free copy of an electronic document online in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles, as ...
).
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.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Clarivate's ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal had a 2020
impact factor
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as ...
of 7.738, ranked 17th of 160 in the world in General and Internal Medicine category.
See also
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List of medical journals
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MJA InSight
References
External links
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Publications established in 1856
General medical journals
English-language journals
Biweekly journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals