MRM Letter from the Editor: March 2025

March 3, 2025

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Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

We have just posted our 2024 list of peer reviewers for the journal (both scientific manuscript reviewers and Code Reviewers), and I wish to thank them sincerely for their service. Magn Reson Med, like all peer-reviewed journals, is reliant on its many dedicated reviewers. Last year almost 1000 individuals contributed manuscript reviews and Code Reviews for papers submitted to the journal (see the appreciation spreadsheet on the journal home page). Indeed, many people contributed multiple reviews to the journal. Reviewing papers can certainly be a burden, but it is also a great way of keeping up with the literature, and gives you a forward look at studies in your field. If you are on our database and have not been invited to review recently (and would like to be) then please let us know by sending a quick email to the Editorial Office (mrm@ismrm.org) and include a brief list of the keywords that describe your expertise. If, on the other hand, you are not yet on our reviewer database and would like to be then please send a brief CV to mrm@ismrm.org along with some keywords and we will pass your information across to the relevant Deputy Editor(s).

Once again, I want to remind authors that at some point in 2025 Wiley will move Magn Reson Med to its own manuscript management platform, known as Research Exchange (ReX) – currently the journal uses Manuscript Central. This shift will start with the author submission step, which may take place in the next couple of months. The MRM Editorial Office is continuing to work hard to minimize any disruptions that might occur as this transition is made, but I wanted to alert you that it is likely to happen soon. We will try to give a further alert when it does. Subsequently (currently targeted in the summer of 2025) the review process will also transfer to ReX, such that over time all Wiley journals will use this platform. Again, we will try to keep you posted as the new system is rolled out.

For now authors will still use Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mrm) and we continue to ask you to ensure that traffic coming from manuscriptcentral.com (usually via amazonses.com) is not blocked by your email server.

Lastly, don’t forget that the early registration deadline for the ISMRM Annual Meeting in Hawai’i is 10 April 2024. I hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Peter Jezzard, PhD

HEADLINES

Don’t forget to keep checking Study Group Virtual Special Issues that can be found at the journal homepage. Most ISMRM Study Groups have created Virtual Special Issues, with the aim of summarising the latest research in these topic areas. The idea is to update these at least annually to ensure that they remain “living documents” and hopefully will be a valuable resource to Study Group members.
In partnership with the Reproducible Research Study Group (RRSG) we are now offering authors the option of a Code Review of any code they provide in a Data Availability Statement. If authors request it, the RRSG will download the code and check that it installs and can be run. For details see here and an editorial on the experiences of the first year of its use here.

MARCH ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 93, Number 3, March 2025 issue. Additionally, clicking on a title in the attached PDF will take you directly to its abstract. To view the entire article, please use either your log-in information for the Wiley website or your institutional access. Note that many papers in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine are published as Open Access articles and can be freely downloaded by anyone.

March’s Cover Art: This month’s cover art is from:

129Xe Image Processing Pipeline: An open-source, graphical user interface application for the analysis of hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI, by Abdullah S. Bdaiwi, Matthew M. Willmering, Joseph W. Plummer, Riaz Hussain, David J. Roach, Juan Parra-Robles, Peter J. Niedbalski, Jason C. Woods, Laura L. Walkup, Zackary I. Cleveland

March’s Editor’s Picks: Each month, we highlight articles from the current issue that might be of particular interest to our readers. The articles will be available online to anyone for a period of two years, regardless of their subscription status. This month’s selections are: