Regular readers of the MJA might recall that, in the past, our final issue of the year once had a Christmas theme. As many Australians begin to wind down in December and look ahead to holidays and celebrations, the Journal traditionally filled the issue with articles replete with festive cheer, whimsy and humour.
Not so for 2023. In choosing to retire the annual Christmas issue, we are recognising that so many of the things that the country cherishes and looks forward to over the summer holiday period — shared experiences with loved ones and our communities, rest and relaxation, enjoyment of our stunning and rich natural environment — are fundamentally intertwined with people's health and wellbeing. As editors of a medical journal committed to advancement of health, better, we thought, to spend our precious, limited pages showcasing content that strives to achieve this goal.
This issue of the MJA is dedicated to planetary health. The way that humans interact with our natural world is arguably the most pressing health challenge of our time. Six articles in this issue address the myriad ways that human health and wellbeing critically depend on the earth's natural systems, the interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, and the responsibility that we all share for protecting and promoting a healthy and sustainable world.
Since 2017, the MJA has partnered with Australian researchers and the Lancet Countdown to publish annual reports on the links between public health and climate change in Australia. In their editorial, Beggs and Zhang (doi: 10.5694/mja2.52152) draw out key findings for Australia from the latest global Lancet Countdown report and discuss the expansion of the Countdown's global data monitoring and analysis work to encompass regional centres in Asia, South America, Europe, and Small Island Developing States. In recognition of the importance of regional relationships, the next report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown, planned for early 2024, will broaden in scope to include a focus on Oceania.
Similarly, two editorials in this issue highlight how global cooperation and advocacy efforts are crucial for addressing planetary health priorities. The Australian Global Health Alliance (doi: 10.5694/mja2.52166) argues “Australia is in a unique position to leverage its influence and align efforts in global health with the opportunities that responding to the climate change crisis provides”. The Alliance makes seven recommendations for actions the Australian global health community should implement to support a more sustainable and resilient future. And an article published in over 200 medical journals worldwide (doi: 10.5694/mja2.52148) calls for political leaders to recognise that the escalating climate and nature crises constitute “a global health emergency” and for “WHO to make this declaration before or at the Seventy‐seventh World Health Assembly in May 2024”.
The important role of the health sector in attending to these challenges is highlighted by Pendrey and colleagues in a perspective (doi: 10.5694/mja2.52158) discussing new standards in Australian medical education that recognise planetary health, the health impacts of climate change, and the need for environmentally sustainable health practice, while a letter from Dunne and colleagues (doi: 10.5694/mja2.52159) explains why the decarbonisation of Australia's hospital system is both essential and achievable.
Finally, research by Varghese and colleagues (doi: 10.5694/mja2.52171) estimates that collectively Australians lost 968 years of full health (disability‐adjusted life years) to heat‐related occupational injuries between 2014 and 2019. The highest burden of these injuries occurred in New South Wales and Queensland, and the authors warn that “without adaptive measures and industry‐based policies, the heat‐attributable occupational injury burden will increase as climate change advances”.
At the end of the year, we also recognise all the efforts of the medical community in bringing together the Journal. The MJA aspires to be the journal of the Australian medical community, for the medical community, and that's reflected in the enormous number of people who contribute to it in one way or another. In the 12 months to the end of October 2023, we received 1391 new manuscripts (with 7705 authors, an average of five per paper), 588 of which were research and the rest a diverse mix of clinical cases, guidelines, reviews and opinions (Box). One of the joys of being a journal editor is that you get to read a wide diversity of articles; the saddest thing is that we are not able to publish or even peer review all that we receive. We accepted 20% overall of what we received, but just 7% of the research articles. Throughout 2023, we have refined internal processes to speed up and ensure consistency in our handling of articles, and we welcome feedback on these processes. We have updated our instructions for authors to make them clearer and easier to navigate, and have written new guidelines for reviewers (https://www.mja.com.au/journal/instructions‐authors‐reviewers). If you are writing or reviewing for us, please read these! We are very grateful to the Editorial Advisory Group members (https://www.mja.com.au/journal/staff/mja‐editorial‐advisory‐committee), 42 of them currently, and the 992 reviewers (pp 508–510) who gave their time and expertise to the medical community by advising and reviewing for us in the past 12 months, many on multiple occasions.
2024 will undoubtedly be a challenging year globally. At the time of writing, there are major conflicts ongoing in Ukraine and the Middle East, with many more regional ones. We have just lived through the hottest year on record in our planet's history. In Australia in 2023, the result of the referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which the MJA supported (https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/219/6/mja‐supports‐aboriginal‐and‐torres‐strait‐islander‐voice‐parliament), was profoundly disappointing for many. We recognise that as a medical journal we have a central role in advocating for health — in its many meanings — across our society, and we look forward to continuing that work in 2024 and beyond.
The MJA Editorial Advisory Group members, November 2023
The MJA Editorial Advisory Group members are eminent clinicians and scholars who are valuable sources of ideas for the content of the Journal. They provide constructive criticism of 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 about the editorial process.
John Attia
Lilon G Bandler
Anthony Capon
Flavia M Cicuttini
Paul B Colditz
Brendan S Crabb
Jaya Dantas
Anne Duggan
David A Ellwood
Alex Farrell
Peter G Gibson
Marc Gladman
Charles Guest
Claire L Jackson
Cheryl A Jones
Zsuzsoka Kecskes
José Florencio Fabella Lapeña, Jr
Christopher Levi
C Raina MacIntyre
Jennifer Martin
Patrick D McGorry
Catriona McLean
Lucy Morgan
Peter L Munk
Debra Nestel
Ian N Olver
Wilfred Peh
Anna Ralph
Toby Richards
Christobel Saunders
Susan Sawyer
Jeong‐Wook Seo
Lambert W Schuwirth
Joseph Sung
Helena Teede
Philip G Truskett
Robyn Ward
Steve Wesselingh
Paul S Worley
Catherine Yelland
Neville D Yeomans
Jeffrey Zajac
MJA reviewers, 31 October 2022 – 1 November 2023
Lisa M Abbott
Barbara‐Ann Adelstein
Michael A Adena
Rima Afifi
Ebenezer Afrifa‐Yamoah
Susannah Ahern
Roman A Ahmed
Antonio Ahumada‐Canale
Sarah Aitken
Kylie Alcorn
Chris Alderman
Rosemary Aldrich
Jean‐Pierre Allain
Carolyn A Allan
Sonia Allan
Richard D M Allen
Craig S Anderson
Katrina Anderson
David Andresen
Anders Aneman
Lachlan Angus
Zahid Ansari
Matthew H Anstey
Yves Saint James Aquino
Bruce B Arnold
Melissa Arnold‐Chamney
Rosalie Aroni
Peter Arrow
Christopher K Arthur
Deborah A Askew
Ruth Aston
Eugene Athan
John J Atherton
William (Bill) Atkin
John R Attia
Katie Attwell
Tim Aung
Philip E G Aylward
Oyekoya Taiwo Ayonrinde
Leon A Bach
Michael Baigent
Jodie Bailie
Rob Baird
Christopher S Baker
Ross I Baker
Chinthaka D Balasooriya
Lilon G Bandler
Emily Banks
Bridget Barber
Mary Barker
Rahul D Barmanray
Amanda Barnard
David J Barnes
Adrian G Barnett
Kathryn Barnsley
Christopher A Barton
Tarun Bastiampillai
Deborah J Bateson
Robert G Batey
Marijka Batterham
Philip J. Batterham
Malcolm W Battersby
Frank H Beard
Lutz Beckert
Gitanjali Bedi
Justin Beilby
Anthony J Bell
James R Bell
Katy JL Bell
Max Bell
Scott C Bell
John F Beltrame
Catherine Bennett
David I Ben‐Tovim
David Berlowitz
Martin Berry
James Bewes
Neera Bhatia
Peng Bi
Shailesh Bihari
Marie M Bismark
J Andrew Black
Kirsten I Black
Tony Blakely
Andrew F Bleasel
Peter A Blombery
Melissa J Bloomer
Peter Boan
Felix Bochner
Daniel Bodnar
Jan Bollen
Anna Boltong
Michael A Bonning
Wendy E Bonython
Clare V Boothroyd
Robert Boots
Rohan Bopage
Matthew Borg
Ron Borland
Ivy Lynn Bourgeault
Lisa Bourke
Sarah Bourke
Jacqueline Bowden
Asha C Bowen
Simon D Bowler
Steven C Boyages
Philip M Boyce
Ian W Boyd
Frances M Boyle
Clare E Bradley
James Bradley
George Braitberg
Annette J Braunack‐Mayer
Abigail Bray
Danny Brazzale
Chris Brennan‐Jones
Shaun P Brennecke
Bruce J Brew
Fraser J Brims
Peter J Bristow
Helena C Britt
Philip N Britton
Henry Brodaty
Tina Brodie
Katie Brooker
Peter M Brooks
Julia M L Brotherton
Stephanie J Brown
Fiona J Bruinsma
Adam Bryant
Malgorzata M Brzozowska
Jane Buckingham
Liz Buckley
Charley Budgeon
Lyndal Bugeja
Anne E Buist
Liliana Bulfone
Hayden Burch
Luke Burchill
C Paul Burgess
John R Burgess
Andrew Burke
Lucy Burr
Aidan JC Burrell
Sally A Burrows
Ailsa R Butler
Gerard J Byrne
Rose Cairns
Rosemary Calder
Jeffrey P Callen
Leon Caly
Jessica Cameron
Anna Campain
David G Campbell
Dianne Campbell
Martin (Marty) Campbell
William G Campbell
Jeffrey W Cannon
Jonathan R Carapetis
Simon Carney
Scott Carruthers
Phillip J Carson
Stacy M. Carter
Gillian E Caughey
Sarah Chalmers
Alex J Chamberlain
Alicia Chan
Sonia Chanchlani
Lisa Wing Kwun Chang
Jeremy R Chapman
Richard Charlewood
Paul Chee
Jack Chen
Timothy F Chen
Allen C Cheng
Daryl R Cheng
Ian R Cheong
Jeanie Cheong
Angela L Chiew
Clayton K Chiu
James Y J Choi
Philip Young‐Ill Choi
Peter F M Choong
Markian Choptiany
Clara K Chow
Eric P F Chow
Susan Chua
Alexandra Chung
Flavia M Cicuttini
Scott Clark
Warren Clements
Hazel J Clothier
Penelope Coates
Tina Cockburn
Enrico W Coiera
Stephen Colagiuri
Jacinta M Coleman
Samantha Colledge‐Frisby
James Collett
Philippa Collin
John P Collins
Luke B Connelly
Celia M Cooper
Mark S Cooper
Matt Cooper
Michael D Coory
Michael Coory
David L Copolov
Charles F Corke
Xanthi Coskinas
Andrew M Cotterill
Christine T Cowie
Terry J Coyne
Darrell H G Crawford
Gregory Crawford
Nigel W Crawford
Philip Crispin
David Crompton OAM
David B Cross
Brendan Crotty
Philip Crowley
Louise A Cullen
Peter J Cundy
Bart J Currie
Alana R Cuthbert
Lucette Cysique
E R David Dammery
Jaya A R Dantas
Shane Darke
Mike Daube
Sharon R Davis
Kade Davison
Andrew S Day
Caroline M de Costa
Cassandra De Lacy‐Vawdon
Charles de Mestral
Juliana de Oliveira Costa
Richard S de Steiger
Mark Deady
Nicola R Dean
Anthony Dear
Rachel Dear
Gary Deed
Peter Del Fante
Anthony Delaney
Anthony Delaney
Clare Delany
Michael C d'Emden
Apo Demirkol
Justin T Denholm
Sarah M Dennis
Mirella Di Benedetto
Jan E Dickinson
Hugh G Dickson
Michelle DiGiacomo
Melody Ding
Joanna Dipnall
George Disney
John B Dixon
Timothy A Dobbins
Annette J Dobson
James CG Doery
Xenia Dolja‐Gore
Sarah Donald
Susan M Donath
Ravindra Dotel
Carol Douglas
Paul J Douglas
Jo A Douglass
Jenny A Doust
Robert Dowsett
Joseph Doyle
Mithilesh Dronavalli
Kate Drummond
Wei Du
Stephen J Duckett
Donisha M Duff
David Duncan
Gregory J Duncombe
Jeff Dunn
Amalie Dyda
Scott Eacott
Creswell J Eastman
Kristie Ebi
Benjamin Edwards
Hooi C Ee
John A Eisman
Elizabeth J Elliott
Jane Elliott
Rohan A Elliott
David A Ellwood
J. Mark Elwood
Jon D Emery
Taku Endo
Zoltan H Endre
Coralie English
David Espinoza
Adrian J Esterman
Helen Evans
Paul P Fahey
Christopher K Fairley
Kate Fairweather‐Schmidt
Michael O Falster
Jonathon P Fanning
Michael Farrell
Ahmad Farshid
Robert G Fassett
Daniel M Fatovich
Peter Ferguson
Nino Fijacko
David W Firman
Caleb Fisher
Christopher Fisher
Robert A Fitridge
Joanne Flavel
Vicki Flenady
Leon Flicker
Christopher M Florkowski
Teresa Flower
Kwun M Fong
Ensieh Fooladi
Therese (Terri) M Foran
Geoffrey M Forbes
Brett H Forge
Kirsty Forrest
S. Lesley Forster
Kevin D Forsyth
Lauren V Fortington
William Foulkes
David Fraile Navarro
Oliver R Frank
Peter Franklin
Ellie Freedman
Toby Freeman
Nicholas Freudenberg
Jeffrey Fuller
Stephen Fuller
John W Funder
Seana Gall
Coral E Gartner
Paul A Gatenby
Jacob George
Andrew Georgiou
Alison Gibberd
Harry Gibbs
Peter Gibbs
Katherine Gibney
John Gibson
Tiffany K Gill
David Gillatt
Marisa T Gilles
Joanna Girling
Sarah J Glastras
Paul P Glasziou
Kristen Glenister
Michelle SY Goh
Lynette R. Goldberg
David E. Goldsbury
Phillip D Good
David L Gordon
Alexandra S Gorelik
Nicholas Gottardo
Petra Graham
Robert M Graham
Kathleen Gray
Melissa J. Green
Tim J Green
David Greenfield
Paul Griffin
Mathis Grossmann
Sonia R Grover
Andrew E Grulich
Luke E Grzeskowiak
Eric Guazzo
Hasantha Gunasekera
Jenny E Gunton
Michelle P B Guppy
Monisha Gupta
Josephine D Gwynn
Thi Ninh Ha
Bronwyn B Haasdyk
Paul S Haber
Casey M Haining
George Halasz
Victoria Hall
Sally Hall Dykgraaf
Christine M Hallinan
Jordan Halsey
P Shane Hamblin
Christopher J K Hammett
David P Hansen
Emily C Hansen
Penny Haora
Mark Hardy
Jenny Hargreaves
David Harley
Richard W Harper
Ian A Harris
Katie Harris
Mark F Harris
Gunter F Hartel
Mary Anne Hartley
Andrew Hayen
Philip L Hazell
William F Heddle
Maddie Heenan
Martin Hensher
Subash Shanthakumar Heraganahally
Alexander G Heriot
Charlotte M Hespe
Mark Hew
David Heyworth‐Smith
Daryl Higgins
Catherine Hill
Nicole T M Hill
Neil J Hime
Dana A Hince
Pravin Hissaria
Danielle Hitch
Vincent Ho
Peter G Hobbins
Samantha L Hocking
Tammy C Hoffmann
Cameron J Holloway
Chris B Holmwood
Gerald Holtmann
Caroline SE Homer
Preben Homoe
Elizabeth Hoon
Malcolm J Hopwood
Monsurul Hoq
John D Horowitz
Graeme L Horton
Robert L Horvath
Matthew Howard
Jessica Howell
Chi Chi Huang
Carmen Huckel Schneider
Thomas J Hugh
Jaqui Hughes
Eloise Hummell
John S Humphreys
Joseph Hung
Roger W Hunt
Elizabeth Hurrion
Adrian Hutchinson
Yun Tae Hwang
Natalie Hyde
Zoë Hyde
Jonathan A Hyett
Primiano Iannone
Joseph E Ibrahim
Laila Ibrahim
Susan Ieraci
Warrick J Inder
Geoffrey K Isbister
Katherine Z Isoardi
Angela Ives
Pupalan Iyngkaran
Peter A Jacoby
Nazila Jamshidi
Tania Janusic
Andrew Jardine
Edward Jegasothy
Grant A Jenkin
Charles G Jenkinson
Adam WJ Jenney
Awachana Jiamsakul
Thanjira Jiranantakan
Paul D R Johnson
Robyn Johnston
Yann Joly
Alexandra Jones
Cheryl A Jones
Daryl Jones
Mark A Jones
Michael P Jones
Michelle Jongenelis
Susan J Jordan
Louisa Jorm
Anthony M Joshua
Caroline Jung
Ian J Kamerman
Benjamin Kamien
Melissa S‐L Kang
Christos Karapetis
Peter Katelaris
Gregory P Katsoulotos
Judith M Katzenellenbogen
Margaret P Kay
Joey M Kaye
Zsuzsoka Kecskes
Helen I Keen
Claire Keith
Robert I Kelly
Anna R Kemp‐Casey
Michelle Kennedy
Danelle Kenny
Louise Keogh
Vicki Kerrigan
Alison M Kesson
Dev A S Kevat
Hanan Khalil
Sankalp Khanna
Karen Kiang
Belinda E Kiely
Monique Kilkenny
Lara A Kimmel
David King
Andrea Kirk‐Brown
David S Knopman
Archana Koirala
Tom Kompas
Tony M Korman
Anoop N Koshy
Karam Kostner
Gabor T Kovacs
Sari Kovats
Leonard Kritharides
Matthew Ku
Mervyn Kyi
Clementine Labrosciano
Paul A Lacaze
Luise P Lago
Kyle Lam
Stephen B Lambert
Anthony D LaMontagne
Aleksandra Lange
Sarah L Larkins
Edmund M T Lau
Naomi T Laventhal
Kate Laver
David M Lawrence
Huong Le
Minh Le Cong
Julie Leask
Karin Leder
Amanda J Lee
Han‐Shin Lee
Vincent Weng Seng Lee
Stephen R Leeder
Alexander Christoph Lehn
James Leigh
James W Leitch
Muriel Lepesteur‐Thompson
Janni Leung
Avram Levy
Michael H Levy
Miriam T Levy
Joshua R. Lewis
Steven J Lewis
Joel Lexchin
Susan Liew
Jean Li‐Kim‐Moy
Vidya S Limaye
Amelia Lin
Daniel Lindsay
Jocelyn Lippey
Wendy L Lipworth
Robyn Littlewood
Andrew R Lloyd
Erwin Loh
Zerina Lokmic‐Tomkins
Thomas Longden
Derrick Lopez
Sarah (Sally) J Lord
Michelle Lorimer
David Lovell
Kym Lowry
Michaela Lucas
Brigid Lynch
Georgios Lyratzopoulos
Kristine Macartney
Peter S Macdonald
Colin JM MacDougall
C. Raina MacIntyre
Andrew I MacIsaac
Richard J MacIsaac
John S Mackenzie
Graeme MacLaren
Rona Macniven
Bill Madden
Guy J Maddern
Raglan Maddox
Roger S Magnusson
Ann Maguire
Patrick D Mahar
Matthew J Maiden
Rheanna Mainzer
Suman S Majumdar
Donna B Mak
Marshall Makate
Gregory B Maletis
Arunima Malik
James Malycha
Sam Manger
G Bruce Mann
Louise J Maple‐Brown
Victoria J Mar
Guy B Marks
Clara Marquina
Helen S Marshall
Andrew J Martin
Jennifer H Martin
Linda K Martin
Marianne Martinello
Scott McAlister
Kristin E McBain‐Rigg
Katharine McBride
Gabrielle McCallum
Hamish McCallum
Geoffrey W McCaughan
Philip I McCloud
Joseph G McCormack
Patricia McDaniel
Christine F McDonald
Stephen P McDonald
Mike McDonough
Catherine McDougall
Patrick McElduff
Michael J McGee
Patrick D McGorry
Matthew R McGrail
Myra B McGuinness
Sarah L McGuinness
Treasure M McGuire
Lisa McHugh
Scott McKenzie
Daniel B McLaughlin
Michelle McLean
Andrew P McLean‐Tooke
Hamish McManus
Alan A McNab
John McNamara
Anna McNulty
Zoe K McQuilten
Vicki McWilliam
Graham N Meadows
Nicholas A Medland
Bettina Meiser
Tracy L Merlin
Lea Merone
Neil Merrett
Linda Mileshkin
Alistair Miller
Caroline L Miller
Michael J Millward
Barbara Mintzes
Imogen Mitchell
Rebecca J Mitchell
Francis Mitrou
Maja Moensted
Amir Moheet
Ben W Mol
Eric S Molina
Harry G Mond
Michael Montalto
A Rob Moodie
Julia K Moore
Kate H Moore
Susan J Morgan
Peter Morley
Meg E Morris
Christopher N Morrison
David Mountain
Yasmin Mowat
Alison M Mudge
Raymond J Mullins
Peter L Munk
Kevin Murray
Vasi Naganathan
Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair
Jackob M Najman
Alison J Nankervis
Peter T Nash
Natasha Nassar
Amanda L Neil
Mark R Nelson
Alberto Nettel‐Aguirre
Harvey H Newnham
Graham L Newstead
Son H Nghiem
Gary Nicholls
Kathleen M Nicholls
Jay Nicholson
Suzanne Nielsen
Olav B Nielssen
Rosemary L Nixon
Johannes Nossent
Diana O'Halloran
Barry W Oakes
Jeremy J N Oats
Carly Oboudiyat
Paul Ockelford
Michele A O'Connell
Anne O'Connor
Daniel W O'Connor
Samson Ogunlade
Benjamin Olesnicky
Catherine M Olsen
Ian N Olver
Susanne P O'Malley
Jason J Ong
Esther A Onyango
David C Orchard
Neil R Orford
Nicholas J Osborne
Joshua Osowicki
Matthew Oster
Belinda G O'Sullivan
Margaret F A Otlowski
Louisa Owens
Jan Oyebode
Bhavna Padhye
Alexander A Padiglione
Andrew J Palmer
Lyle J Palmer
Nirmala Pandeya
Nina Papalia
Lito E Papanicolas
Elizabeth Paratz
Robert M Parker
John Pastor Ansah
Sallie Pearson
Wilfred CG Peh
Stella Pendle
Cindy Peng
Paul L Pers
Andrew F Pesce
Gregory M Peterson
Dennis Petrie
Minh Duc Pham
Thanh G Phan
Robert W Pickles
David Pilcher
Rhiannon M Pilkington
Nevada Pingault
Angie N Pinto
Adam Pomerleau
C Dimity Pond
Phillippa J Poole
Michael D E Potter
Anne E Powell
Sandhir Prasad
Jeffrey Presneill
Karen Price
David L Prior
Douglas A Pritchard
Joseph Proietto
Simon Quilty
Steve Quinn
Magdalena Z Raban
Janette C Radford
Kylie Radford
Anna P Ralph
Isuru Ranasinghe
Nicole M Rankin
Geetha Ranmuthugala
Srinidhi JV Rao
Melissa Raven
Eva Rawlings Parker
Jennifer S Reath
Andrew Redfern
Gerry Redmond
Megan A Rees
Christopher Reid
Natasha Reid
Sharon Reid
Lennart Reifels
Lionel I Reyftmann
Alice M Richardson
Arthur J Richardson
Malcolm D Riley
Matthew Rimmer
Fiona Robards
Sally A Roberts
Stuart K Roberts
Iain K Robertson
Paul G Robertson
Stephen J Robson
Ann M Roche
Rebecca Rockett
David M Roder
Leigh Roeger
Benjmain Rogers
Geraint B Rogers
Kris Rogers
Helena Romaniuk
Kathlyn J Ronaldson
Loreto V T Rose
Cliff Rosendahl
Elizabeth E Roughead
Stacey L Rowe
Anthony W Russell
Darren B Russell
Christopher J Ryan
Sabe Sabesan
Perminder S Sachdev
Lucy Salmon
Ruth Salom
Sandra Salter
Tarik Sammour
Jaswinder Samra
Jacinto Sánchez Ibáñez
Alan S C Sandford
John B Saunders
Rebecca B Saunderson
Susan M Sawyer
Andrea L Schaffer
Chris Schilling
Rosalie Schultz
Stefan Schutt
Lambert W T Schuwirth
Kate Scoles
Ian A Scott
James G Scott
Nick Scott
Nick Screaton
Deshan F Sebaratnam
Paul J Secombe
Leonie Segal
Steven P Segal
Debbie Selby
Mark Selikowitz
Belle Selkirk
Moncef Sellami
Linda A Selvey
Hannah Seymour
E. Michael Shanahan
Jonathan E Shaw
William S Shaw
Amith Shetty
Lizzi Shires
Rupendra N Shrestha
Alexis L Shub
Stephen P Shumack
William Sievert
Ronli Sifris
Morry Silberstein
Gregory Siller
Kuljit Singh
Manoj Y Singh
Freddy Sitas
Janet K Sluggett
James Smith
Roger Smith
Simon Smith
Thomas L Snelling
Jessamine Soderstrom
Ann C Solterbeck
Peter Speck
Nathaly Spilotros
Geoffrey K Spurling
Preeyaporn Srasuebkul
Ingrid Stacey
Fiona J Stanley
Rosemary A Stanton
Richard J Stark
Brian N Stein
Jacqueline Stephens
Matthew Stevens
Jana Stojanova
Simone I Strasser
Alison Street
Bronwyn G A Stuckey
Allan D Sturgess
Elizabeth Ann Sturgiss
Joachim P Sturmberg
Asvini Subasinghe
Clair Sullivan
Richard P Sullivan
Thomas R Sullivan
Rajah Supramaniam
Tom R Sutherland
Jeffrey Szer
Dipti Talaulikar
Patrick Tansley
Georgina E Taylor
Mark Taylor
Silas Taylor
Helena J Teede
Giuliano Testa
Lena Thin
Hayley R Thomas
Paul S. Thomas
Alexander Thompson
Geoffrey N Thompson
John F. Thompson
Sandra C Thompson
Mark L H Tie
Jane Tiller
Stephen Tisch
Steven Y C Tong
Michael J Toole
Leigh Tooth
Adrienne J Torda
Jenny‐Ann Toribio
Shidan Tosif
Belinda Townsend
Oliver Treacy
Stephen C Trumble
Melanie S Turner
Robin M Turner
Anna Ugalde
Mahesh Umapathysivam
Kim Usher
Tim Usherwood
Patricia C Valery
William van Gaal
Kees C van Gool
Michael J Veness
Kunal Verma
Karin Verspoor
Christopher Vertullo
Elmer V Villanueva
Renuka Visvanathan
Aditya Vyas
Amanda J Wade
Gareth Wahl
Deborah Walkden
Susan P Walker
Michael Waller
John P Walsh
Garry J Walter
Richard Walton
Handan Wand
Kinley Wangdi
Stephanie A Ward
Orli Wargon
Lynette Waring
John D Wark
Peter A B Wark
Morgyn S Warner
David D Warrell
David A K Watters
Susan M Wearne
Heidi Welberry
Bo Wen
John M Wentworth
Juanita L Westbury
Anita Westera
Sara Whitburn
Andrew V White
Ben P White
Bethany White
Julian White
Sarah J White
Harvey A Whiteford
David C Whiteman
Paul Wiemers
Rushani Wijesuriya
Nicholas R Wilcken
Chris S Wilkinson
Louise Wilkinson
Simon M Willcock
Margaret Williamson
Hester Wilson
Rachel Wilson
Eric Windholz
Christine Winter
Katrina Witt
Alex D Wodak
Hugh D Wolfenden
Li‐Chuen Wong
Vincent Wing‐Ming Wong
Anna Wood
Erica M Wood
Erica M Wood
Anne Woollett
Rosemary Wyber
Elizabeth J Wylie
Mark W Yates
Sophie Yates
Anusch Yazdani
Josephine Yeatman
Catherine Yelland
Lisa N Yelland
Choong‐Siew Yong
Alan Young
Xue Qin Yu
James Yun
Deborah Zador
John R Zalcberg
Sarah Zaman
Christopher Zeitz
Nikolajs Zeps
Yuejen Zhao
Kun Zhu
John B Ziegler
Graeme R Zosky
Sophia Zoungas
Nicholas A Zwar
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Manuscripts |
Received |
Accepted |
% Accepted |
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|
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Total |
1391 |
279 |
20% |
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Research |
588 |
42 |
7% |
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Narrative and other reviews, and meta‐analyses |
100 |
13 |
13% |
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Guidelines |
12 |
4 |
33% |
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Lessons from practice and snapshots |
167 |
23 |
14% |
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Editorials |
45 |
45 |
100% |
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Perspectives |
199 |
50 |
25% |
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Letters |
90 |
52 |
58% |
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Research letters |
78 |
18 |
23% |
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Mean days to decision |
|
Total |
Research |
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To accept |
|
88 |
145 |
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To reject (with and without peer review) |
|
22 |
23 |
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Reviewers used |
|
|
992 |
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- Elizabeth Zuccala1
- Virginia Barbour2
- on behalf of the MJA editorial team
- 1 Deputy Medical Editor, the Medical Journal of Australia
- 2 Editor‐in‐Chief, the Medical Journal of Australia