JOMA 2024 Annual Report

We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to our editorial board members, guest editors, reviewers, authors, and readers, as well as to present you the 2024 Annual Report of JOMA. We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2025 and look forward to working closely with you in the new year to continue the progress of JOMA.

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Interviews with Editorial Board Members

JOMA features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

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Reviewer of the Month (2025)

In 2025, JOMA reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

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Anaesthesia for Maxillofacial Surgery (Ongoing)

This series on "Anaesthesia for Maxillofacial Surgery" is edited by Dr. Chris Jones and Bhavesh Patel from Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, UK. This special series covers a number of important areas of anaesthesia for Maxillofacial Surgery, featuring intubation and extubation techniques, different ventilation strategies including during the shared airway, front of neck access in both emergency and elective situations, and finally looking at Enhanced Recovery After Surgery for major head and neck/maxillofacial surgery.

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Anaesthesia for Oral Cancer (Published)

This series on “Anaesthesia for Oral Cancer” is edited by Dr. Patrick Ward and Dr. Michael Irwin. The authors are proud to present this special edition to provide a guide that highlights important safety aspects involved in the anaesthesia management of oral cancer.

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Perioperative Organ Injury: Impact on Surgical Outcomes (Ongoing)

This special series of JOMA will cover but not limited: 1) Major noncardiac surgery (e.g. gastrointestinal, thoracic, renal, or transplantation surgery) in-duced vital organ injuries or failure; 2) Surgery associated organ ischaemia-reperfusion injury induced distant organ injury; 3) Systemic inflammatory re-sponse syndrome (SIRS) following microbiome changes; 4) Injurious cross-talk between vital organs; 5) Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on surgical pa-tients and outcomes; 6) Cell death induced by surgical trauma and underlying mechanisms.

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Opioid-free Anesthesia and Opioid-sparing Anesthesia in OMF Surgery

This series on “Opioid-free Anesthesia and Opioid-sparing Anesthesia in OMF Surgery” is edited by Dr. Jingping Wang and Dr. Christopher Fanelli. The main purposes of this series will be (1) to review the current knowledge regarding opioid-free and/or opioid sparing anesthesia and alternative analgesic techniques for the current clinical practice, (2) to describe the major benefits of opioid free and/or sparing anesthesia to the patients and (3) to discuss the multimodal approach to perioperative pain management in OMF surgery.

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Implementation of transparent peer review at Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Anesthesia (JOMA)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to JOMA.

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