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11-558: 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. 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: The current editor of

22-480: 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 ). 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. MJA InSight+

33-838: A chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for two terms (2012–2015; 2015–2017). She serves as the director of the Australasian open access strategy group (2015–present), and works as a part-time professor between the Office of Research Ethics & Integrity and the Division of Technology, Information and Learning Services, at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane , Australia . Barbour has published over 100 peer reviewed publications, generating over 14,000 citations and has an h-index of 20. She has played

44-492: A role in developing several reporting guidelines and open-access initiatives, including Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT), Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA), Healthcare Information For All (HIFA) and Evidence AID . The Lancet Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

55-667: 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. The journal

66-651: 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". Virginia Barbour Virginia M. Barbour is a professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane , Australia , and serves as the Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group. She

77-490: Is best known for being one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine , and her various roles in championing the open access movement. Barbour pursued a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BChir) degree and Master of Arts (MA) degree at the University of Cambridge . This was followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in molecular medicine at the University of Oxford where her research investigated

88-537: The MJA - appointed in 2023 - is Virginia Barbour . 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 . 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

99-462: 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 asking him to review the decision. Nicholas Talley succeeded Stephen Leeder as editor-in-chief in September 2015 and the editorial advisory group

110-577: The control of alpha globin genes and was awarded in 1997. Following her education and training, Barbour served as an executive editor at The Lancet between 1994 and 2004. Barbour was one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine (2004–2013), and later served as the PLOS Medicine Editorial Director (2012–2014), and the PLOS Medicine and Biology Editorial Director (2014–2015). Barbour has also served as

121-407: Was subsequently reconstituted. From January 2019, the journal is published by Wiley . Print distribution remains with the Australasian Medical Publishing Company and editorial direction and decisions remain with the journal. 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

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