Talk:Medical Journal of Australia

MJA editor comments

The link to the Australasian Journal of Bone & Joint Medicine seems irrelevant and I suggest that this is removed. This linked Journal has no relationship to the Medical Journal of Australia. Likewise, the paragraph beginning "At a 2009 court case in Australia where Merck & Co..." also seems irrelevant as this has no relationship to the Medical Journal of Australia, and should be deleted. MJA Editor Zoe (talk) 07:37, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

The reference to the AJBJM is relevant to Stephen Leeder's departure and so shoudl be retained, however it was being given undue weight and it was not clear that the passage did not refer to the MJA. I have refactored that section to make it clearer and less prominent. Yunshui ^雲_水 08:11, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you Yunshui. MJA Editor Zoe (talk) 08:21, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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MEDRS and NPOV content from Medical Journal of Australia to Alternative medicine article

A discussion to restore the first 14 sources of this version, including from Medical Journal of Australia, etc., to the Alternative medicine article is now going on here. ParkSehJik (talk) 03:19, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Suggested updates

To the editors - I work with AMPCo and I've made sure that I am cautious of having any possible conflict of interest. All the information given is true and have made a concious effort not to make it sound like a promotion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranjeetatamang (talk * contribs) 06:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Proposed changes

The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 22 times a year. It is the official journal of the Australian Medical Association, published by the Australasian Medical Publishing Company. The Journal is the highest ranked medical journal in the Asia–Pacific region and ranked 19, globally, for general medical journals.  Not done Other articles about journals do list this sort of info, but would definitely need a reference. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:02, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

The MJA is published and distributed in print on the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month. The digital edition of the journal is made available on both mja.com.au and in the Wiley Online Library.

The journal publishes editorials, original research, guideline summaries, narrative reviews, perspectives, medical education, reflections and letters.[1] The full text of every issue dating from 1914 has been digitised and is now available online.[2]

The MJA follows the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Association of Medical Editors on publishing and editorial matters. The MJA maintains editorial independence. All views expressed in the Journal are those of the authors.

The MJA believes research must be able to be easily and rapidly disseminated to all who might benefit from it.  Not done Too generic T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:54, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

All MJA research articles are freely available online.

All Indigenous health articles are also free to access.

History

The journal has had several titles over the years:[3]

• Australian Medical Journal (1846–1895)
• 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)

Free and open access

The MJA encourages the highest quality of research and believes research must be able to be easily and rapidly disseminated to all who might benefit from it.  Not done T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:02, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

From January 2012, all MJA research articles have been freely available online.  Done T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

The MJA has a strong commitment to Australian Indigenous health and to improve Indigenous Health awareness, the MJA makes all Indigenous health articles free to access.  Done (with additional changes) T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 10:51, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Other selected articles are also freely accessible, including Editor’s choice articles, guidelines, supplements, obituaries and articles selected by the Editor-in-Chief because of their importance to public health.

In response to the changing landscape of open access publishing, in January 2019, the MJA made changes to copyright options available to authors. The MJA now offers both a fee-based fully open access option (Gold Open Access) and a free option that allows archiving of submitted versions in online repositories (Green Open Access).  Done (with additional changes) T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Previous editors

• Dr Henry Armit 1914–1930
• Dr Mervin Archdall 1930–1957
• Dr Ronald Winton 1957–1977
• Dr Arthur Gwynn 1977–1978
• Dr Laurel Thomas 1978–1981
• Sir Keith Jones (Acting) 1981
• Dr Alan Blum 1982–1983
• Dr Kathleen King (Acting) 1983
• Dr Alistair Brass 1983–1985
• Dr Kathleen King 1985–1989
• Dr Laurel Thomas and Dr Jill Forrest (Acting and then jointly) 1998–1994
• Dr Laurel Thomas 1995
• Professor Priscilla Kincaid-Smith (Acting) 1995
• Dr Martin Van Der Weyden 1996–2011
• Dr Annette Katelaris 2011–2012
• Dr Ann Gregory (Acting) 2012–2013
• Professor Stephen Leeder 2013–2015
• Dr Charles Guest (Acting) 2015
• Professor Nicholas Talley 2015 to present

• Could be added IF there is a reliable source (but academic titles should be removed). --Randykitty (talk) 12:14, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Abstracting and indexing

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2017 impact factor of 4.227.[4]

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.[5] 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.[6][7][8][9]

All but one of the Journal’s editorial advisory committee resigned following the decision to dismiss Leeder, and wrote to Australian Medical Association president Brian Owler asking him to review the decision.[10][11]

Nicholas Talley succeeded Stephen Leeder as Editor-in-Chief in September 2015. The editorial advisory group was subsequently reconstituted.[12]  Done T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:54, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Editorial Advisory Group

The MJA Editorial Advisory Group members are all eminent clinicians and scholars in their respective medical fields. They provide constructive criticism on the format and content of the Journal and provide independent advice to the MJA Editorial Committee on appeals of editorial decisions, problematic articles, and complaints on the editorial process. The current members of the MJA Editorial Advisory Group are

• Anthony Capon, BMedSci, MB BS, PhD, FAFPHM
• Flavia M Cicuttini, MSc, MB BS, FRACP, PhD
• Paul B Colditz, MB BS, DPhil(Oxon), MBiomedEng, FRACP, FRCPCH
• Jane Dacre, MD, PRCP
• Anne Duggan, BA(Hons), BMed, MHP, PhD, FRACP, FRACMA, GAICD
• David A Ellwood, MA, DPhil(Oxon), MB, BChir(Cantab), FRANZCOG(MFM), DDU
• Alex Farrell, Medical student
• Peter G Gibson, MB BS, FRACP
• Marc Gladman, MB BS PhD MRCOG FRCS FRACS
• Claire L Jackson, MD, MPH, FRACGP
• Cheryl A Jones, MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP
• Zsuzsoka Kecskes, FRACP, PhD
• Kelvin Kong, BSc, MB BS, FRACS
• José Florencio Fabella Lapeña, Jr., AB (Honours), MA, MD, FPCS, FPSOHNS, FPAHNS
• Christopher Levi, BMedSci, MB BS, FRACP
• Jennifer Martin, MA (Oxon), FRACP, PhD
• Dennis R McDermott, BEc, BA(Hons), MA
• Patrick D McGorry, MD, PhD, FRCP, FRANZCP
• Catriona McLean, AO, BSc, MBBS, FRCPA, MD, FFSc (RCPA), FAHSM
• Paul Moayyedi, MD, MPH, PhD
• Peter L Munk, MDCM, FRCPC, FSIR, FFRRCSI(Hon)
• Terry Nolan, AO, FAMHS, BMedSc, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM
• Ian N Olver, AM, MD, PhD
• Anushka Patel, MBBS, SM, PhD, FRACP, FCSANZ, FAHMS
• Wilfred Peh, MB BS, MD, FRCP, FRCR
• Toby Richards, MD, FRCS
• Jeong-Wook Seo, MD
• Lambert W Schuwirth, MD, PhD
• Joseph Sung, MD, PhD
• Susan Sawyer, MB BS, MD, FRACP
• Philip G Truskett, AM, MB BS, FRACS, FACS, FASGBI(Hon), FAICD, FRCSEd
• Steve Wesselingh, BMBS, FRACP, PhD, FAHMS
• Paul S Worley, MB BS, PhD, MBA, FAAHMS, FACRRM, FRACGP, DORANZCOG, GAICD
• Catherine Yelland, MB BS, FRACP
• Neville D Yeomans, MD, DSc(hc), FRACP
• Jeffrey Zajac, MB BS, PhD, FRACP

 Not done See WP:JWG, we don't include lists of editorial board members. --Randykitty (talk) 12:13, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

John Wiley and Sons

From January 2019, the Medical Journal of Australia partnered with John Wiley and Sons to manage the production and to publish and distribute the MJA online. Print distribution remains with the Australasian Medical Publishing Company and editorial direction and decisions remain with the MJA.  Done T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:23, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ranjeetatamang (talk * contribs) 06:12, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

References

Discussion

Ranjeetatamang Thanks for taking this to the talk page, rather than making the changes yourself. You clearly do have a conflict of interest, and should adhere by the guidance at COI.

With regards to the text above, it's not very clear what you are suggesting be changed. Are you suggesting that the content be replaced by your text, or that your text be somehow woven into the article? It might be easier if you made clear, concrete proposals along the lines of 'please change X to Y'.

Please do note, however, that we aim to use reliably published, secondary independent sources to support any assertion (aside from the most straightforward factual ones, such as the address of an office or the current board members of an organisation). Material should not therefore be referenced to the MJA website. Cheers GirthSummit _(blether) 06:45, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Please have a look at our journal article writing guide. This article will certainly not be replaced by your text, which is way to promotional. It reads like this could be a copy of text from its own website (I have no time right now to check this). We don't include lists of editorial board members either. As Girth Summit said, if there are any specific points that are currently incorrect or missing, you can list those here. Thanks. --Randykitty (talk) 08:06, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

I've had a look through and am formatting for readability and to note which parts are the changes from the original article. Differences to original formatted like this except for bulletpoint lists T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 10:51, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

• I've merged the Wiley information under the section on Elsevier having read the reference. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:24, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
• I've merged some parts of the Free and open access section as a subsection of the Publishing section. The journal's website is probably a sufficient ref, since I don't expect we'll find an external one. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:51, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
• The article processing fee waiver is notable so I've added that it. I think the 'About us' reference is sufficient, but an external ref would be better. I'm surprised it's not been mentioned in any news article. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 10:53, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
• I've not seen other articles on academic journals list previous editors and advisory board members. Perhaps something for Wikidata? Is the 'advisory board' structure notable? I've not come across it for other journals. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 11:04, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

It might be worth also mentioning the H pylorii paper that was instrumental in the 2005 Nobel prize? I think it remains one of their most-cited papers. Possibly also the 1949s Lithium paper and the 1995 whistleblowing paper. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 12:08, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

References

Proposed merge of MJA InSight into Medical Journal of Australia

Not notable, but may deserve brief mention in main article. Randykitty (talk) 15:02, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

I agree with the merge, btw. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 07:09, 19 August 2023 (UTC)

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 08:53, 24 September 2023 (UTC)