About us
Our story
The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is Australia’s leading general medical journal. We publish high quality research and commentary to inform health policy and influence medical practice in Australia.
The MJA expert Editorial team is led by Professor Virginia Barbour. We aim to provide authors with a constructive, collaborative process during peer review and publication.
The first issue of The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) was published in 1914. Today, the MJA has evolved to become a modern, digital journal that continues to translate our founding values into practice. We have an ongoing commitment to supporting the medical profession by publishing high quality, relevant information useful in medical practice.
Please read our Instructions for authors carefully before submitting an article.
We believe that journals should be measured by a range of metrics. The MJA is indexed in PubMed and major medical and scientific journal indices including:
- CAB Abstracts (CABI)
- Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate)
- Current Contents (Clinical Medicine & Life Sciences, Clarivate)
- Essential Science Indicators (Clinical Medicine, Clarivate)
- CINAHL (Core, EBSCO)
- Embase (Elsevier)
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- MEDLINE (NLM)
MJA articles are highly cited in research articles and policy documents.
For cataloguing purposes, we use these ISSNs:
PRINT ISSN: 0025-729X
ONLINE ISSN: 1326-5377
The MJA is a wholly digital journal, with a compiled issue published at the end of each month.
Ethical publishing
The MJA is published by the Australasian Medical Publishing Company (AMPCo), which is wholly owned by the Australian Medical Association (AMA). 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, including peer review, conflict of interest and confidentiality. The MJA is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. The MJA maintains editorial independence, and the views expressed in the Journal are those of the authors.
Free and open access to research articles
Authors can now make their paper open access via repository-based open access (there is no cost for this, though there is a 12-month embargo) or journal based immediate open access, which is made available through the MJA’s publishing partner, Wiley. See here for more information [https://mja.com.au/mja-access-policy]. The MJA has a strong commitment to Australian Indigenous health and makes all Indigenous health articles free to access if not otherwise covered by an open access agreement.
A digital journal
The current issue of the MJA is available here.
All previous MJA articles from 1914 are available online at Wiley. Issues from 2003 are available on this site.
The MJA also produces a weekly online news magazine and newsletter, InSight+. You can sign up to email alerts to advise you of new MJA content.
Partnership with Wiley Online
The MJA has partnered with John Wiley and Sons Inc to publish and distribute the journal.
As part of this partnership, the full archive of all MJA articles — dating from 1914 to the present — have been digitised and can now be accessed via the Wiley Online Library at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/13265377.
Along with the complete digital archive of the MJA, the Wiley Online Library also provides subscribers with access to our latest articles, the ability to purchase individual MJA articles and process for seeking permission to reproduce articles. Wiley also manages open access processes for the MJA.
Subscriptions and online access
For queries about your existing electronic or online subscription, to change your subscription address, to purchase or renew a subscription or to request help setting up your online access.