MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA is published by Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Ltd and is in Zone 3 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Global Health Workforce Issues, Pasture and Agricultural Systems and Australian Indigenous Culture and History, together about 37.8% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About Us The Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) is Australia’s leading peer-reviewed general medical journal. It has been delivering groundbreaking research to the medical community since 1914. Published twice a month, with one issue in each of January and December (22 issues a year), the MJA covers all the important issues affecting Australian health care, publishing the latest clinical research, evidence-based reviews, clinical practice updates, authoritative medical opinion and debate, and developments within the humanities with respect to medicine. The MJA encourages comment and debate from readers. Ethical publishing The MJA is published by the Australasian Medical Publishing Company, which is owned by the Australian Medical Association. 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 maintains editorial independence, and the views expressed in the Journal are those of the authors. Free access to research articles 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. From January 2012, all MJA research articles are freely available online. The MJA has a strong commitment to Australian Indigenous health, and makes all Indigenous health articles free to access. Other selected articles are also freely accessible, including Editor’s choice articles, guidelines, supplements, obituaries and articles selected by the Editor because of their public health importance. Access to other articles is by subscription. A digital journal The MJA is now fully digital as a distributed e-journal and online here. All MJA articles from December 1914 onwards are available here at the Wiley Online Library. Indexing The MJA is discoverable 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)

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Medicine, General & Internal

Editor-in-chief Virginia BarbourPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

MEDLINEPubMedEmbaseCAB AbstractsCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website

Other: EBSCO

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Impact

Impact factor

6.72LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

6.8Publisher website · 2026-09-24

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

6.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

7LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

7Publisher website · 2026-09-24

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

7Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

1.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.63LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

119LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

262OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

14,669OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

3.14OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

7.4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

80.99%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

116LetPub · 2026-09-13

Articles per year (publisher)

2Publisher website · 2026-09-24

Articles per year (publisher) 2025

265Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Downloads per year (publisher) 2025

1,391,770Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

3–8 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Acceptance rate (publisher)

13%Publisher website · 2026-09-24

Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025

13%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

7 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-24

Submission to first decision 2025

7 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to acceptance 2025

130 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication 2025

76 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Australasian Medical Publishing Co. Ltd

Country or region

AUSTRALIA

Language

English

Frequency

Semimonthly

Founded

1914

ISSN

0025-729X

Electronic ISSN

1326-5377

Society / sponsor

Australasian Medical Publishing Company

Latest issue on the website

Volume 224, Issue 9 (September 2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website