MRM Letter from the Editor: July 2025

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Dear Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Subscribers,

As preluded last month, Magn Reson Med has now started using Wiley’s Research Exchange (ReX) Submission tool for authors who submit new papers to the journal. You should be redirected to the new submission portal if you visit the old site, but you will find it directly at wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/MRM. Note that you will also need to set up a Wiley ScienceConnect account if you don’t already have one. The new system appears to be working well for those authors who have already used it, but note that due to limitations in the custom questions we can ask, there are some differences with the new system. Specifically:

  • Magn Reson Med is no longer able to offer double-blind reviewing as an option, and has reverted to single-blind reviewing only. In fact, the experiment with double-blind reviewing over the past few years has shown that it has been taken up by only a very small number of submitting authors (<10%), and has also been the route used by almost all of the out-of-scope papers that have been submitted to the journal. This has resulted in a very high rejection rate for these papers (>80%). Apologies again that we can no longer offer this option.
  • Authors who wish to have a Code Review (provided predominantly by members of the Reproducible Research Study Group) of code linked in their Data Availability Statement will now need to indicate this in the cover letter that accompanies their paper. This initiative has been well received by authors and has resulted in robust code being provided to readers, but the ability to ask this specific question during submission of the paper is now not available. However, please continue to request them via your cover letter!
  • We will no longer ask if papers are being submitted as part of the ISMRM Young Investigator Award. Please visit the ISMRM web site to register papers that you wish to have considered for a YIA award. Submissions to this year’s competition run until 12 September 2025.

For revisions, authors are asked to check their decision letter for specific instructions on how to proceed, including which submission portal to use. Eventually all submissions and revisions will use Wiley’s new ReX Submission portal, but please accept our apologies for the use of both systems in the interim (until all papers submitted using the old Manuscript Central site have received a final decision).

Finally, if you missed this year’s MRM Highlights Magazine (the 10th issue to have been produced!) at the ISMRM Annual Meeting (edited once again by Maria Eugenia Caligiuri) then you can look at it online here.

Best wishes,
Peter Jezzard, PhD

HEADLINES

  • The Top 5 most cited papers from 2022 (contributing to the latest Impact Factor) appear below:

5: Velocity-selective arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI: A review of the state of the art and recommendations for clinical implementation

4: Cerebral oxygen extraction fraction MRI: Techniques and applications

3: Magnetic field strength dependent SNR gain at the center of a spherical phantom and up to 11.7T

2: Recent Technical Developments in ASL: A Review of the State of the Art

1: Review and consensus recommendations on clinical APT-weighted imaging approaches at 3T: Application to brain tumors

  • 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. We have recently added or updated ones from the Pulmonary MR Study Group; the Quantitative MR Study Group; the Placental and Fetal MRI Study Group; the MR in Radiation Therapy Study Group; and the Motion Detection and Correction Study Group!
  • 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 in their cover letter, 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.

JULY ISSUE

Attached you will find, in PDF format, the Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Table of Contents (TOC) for the Volume 94, Number 1, July 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.

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

High-resolution and high-fidelity diffusion tensor imaging of cervical spinal cord using 3D reduced-FOV multiplexed sensitivity encoding (3D-rFOV-MUSE), by Chenglang Yuan, Shihui Chen, Liyuan Liang, Xiaorui Xu, Hailin Xiong, Yi Li, Tianbaige Liu, Nan-Kuei Chen, Hing-Chiu Chang

July’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:

FEATURES

*The MRM Highlights Magazine, Volume 10, is available online!

Recent Q&A articles and special features:

Selection: Open Science Initiative for Perfusion Imaging (OSIPI)

Selection: Wirelessly interfacing sensor-equipped implants and MR scanners for improved safety and imaging

Selection: Fast measurement of the gradient system transfer function at 7 T

Special Features:

We’re accepting YIA submissions for the 2026 ISMRM Annual Meeting in Cape Town, South Africa

Our ScholarOne site is open for manuscript submissions in conjunction with the 2026 I.I. Rabi Award for Basic Science and the Prince-Meaney Award in Translational Science to be awarded at the ISMRM 34th Annual Meeting & Exhibition in in Cape Town, South Africa, 09-14 May 2026. The submission deadline will be 12 September 2025. For more information about the YIA competition, please visit here.

Full Issue PDFs

Full Issue PDFs are now available for download.  Please follow the link available at the journal home page. You will be prompted for your ISMRM login information.

LINKS OF INTEREST

July Articles
Early View
ISMRM Journal Page
Journal Home Page
Highlights Page

Cover Gallery
Virtual Special Issues
YouTube Channel
Previous Editor’s Picks
Full Issue PDFs (ISMRM login required)

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