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Reflecting on what makes a medical journal in 2023: local, regional and planetary connections

Elizabeth Zuccala and Virginia Barbour, on behalf of the MJA editorial team
Med J Aust 2023; 219 (11): 507-510. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52167
Published online: 11 December 2023

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

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Luke B Connelly

Celia M Cooper

Mark S Cooper

Matt Cooper

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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

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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

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Gary Deed

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Apo Demirkol

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Jo A Douglass

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Janni Leung

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Susan Liew

Jean Li‐Kim‐Moy

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Amelia Lin

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Erwin Loh

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Thomas Longden

Derrick Lopez

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Michelle Lorimer

David Lovell

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Brigid Lynch

Georgios Lyratzopoulos

Kristine Macartney

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C. Raina MacIntyre

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John S Mackenzie

Graeme MacLaren

Rona Macniven

Bill Madden

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Raglan Maddox

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Ann Maguire

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James Malycha

Sam Manger

G Bruce Mann

Louise J Maple‐Brown

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Hamish McCallum

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Patrick McElduff

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Scott McKenzie

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Hamish McManus

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John McNamara

Anna McNulty

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Vicki McWilliam

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Lea Merone

Neil Merrett

Linda Mileshkin

Alistair Miller

Caroline L Miller

Michael J Millward

Barbara Mintzes

Imogen Mitchell

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Francis Mitrou

Maja Moensted

Amir Moheet

Ben W Mol

Eric S Molina

Harry G Mond

Michael Montalto

A Rob Moodie

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Kate H Moore

Susan J Morgan

Peter Morley

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David Mountain

Yasmin Mowat

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Kevin Murray

Vasi Naganathan

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Jay Nicholson

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Olav B Nielssen

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Johannes Nossent

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Jaswinder Samra

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Kate Scoles

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Nick Scott

Nick Screaton

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William S Shaw

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William Sievert

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Asvini Subasinghe

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Rajah Supramaniam

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Patrick Tansley

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Mark Taylor

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Giuliano Testa

Lena Thin

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William van Gaal

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Kunal Verma

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Renuka Visvanathan

Aditya Vyas

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Gareth Wahl

Deborah Walkden

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Michael Waller

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Richard Walton

Handan Wand

Kinley Wangdi

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Orli Wargon

Lynette Waring

John D Wark

Peter A B Wark

Morgyn S Warner

David D Warrell

David A K Watters

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Heidi Welberry

Bo Wen

John M Wentworth

Juanita L Westbury

Anita Westera

Sara Whitburn

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Julian White

Sarah J White

Harvey A Whiteford

David C Whiteman

Paul Wiemers

Rushani Wijesuriya

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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

Box – Manuscripts received, 1 November 2022 – 31 October 2023

Manuscripts

Received

Accepted

% Accepted


Total

1391

279

20%

Research

588

42

7%

Narrative and other reviews, and meta‐analyses

100

13

13%

Guidelines

12

4

33%

Lessons from practice and snapshots

167

23

14%

Editorials

45

45

100%

Perspectives

199

50

25%

Letters

90

52

58%

Research letters

78

18

23%

Mean days to decision

 

Total

Research

To accept

 

88

145

To reject (with and without peer review)

 

22

23

Reviewers used

 

 

992


 

  • 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


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