Citation

McClure RJ. Inj. Prev. 2019; 25(4): 243.

Affiliation

School of Rural Medicine, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia rmcclure@une.edu.au.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043366

PMID

31324703

Abstract

Editorials throughout 2018 made explicit the journal’s editorial direction. In particular, we drew readers’ attention to the process of manuscript selection and the purpose selection was aiming to achieve. Rather than being a passive filtering process, editorial selection aims to encourage changes within the research world. At the year’s end, the journal was publishing ‘manuscripts of the highest quality that provided information of high relevance to prevention practice’,3 and hopefully changing the type and quality of research undertaken. Now, 18 months into the current editorial team’s lead-in period, let us take a look at the manuscripts published in this issue. Is the journal publishing the science that supports population-level changes in injury-related health? ...

Language: en