TY - JOUR T1 - The impact of editorial policy JF - Injury Prevention JO - Inj Prev SP - 243 LP - 243 DO - 10.1136/injuryprev-2019-043366 VL - 25 IS - 4 AU - Roderick J McClure Y1 - 2019/08/01 UR - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/25/4/243.abstract N2 - Editorials throughout 2018 made explicit the journal’s editorial direction. In particular, we drew readers’ attention to the process of manuscript selection1 and the purpose selection was aiming to achieve.2 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 … ER -