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In their article ‘Delineating the Field of Medical Education: Bibliometric Research Approach (es)’, Maggio at al. present a list of 24 Medical Education Journals (MEJ-24) identified through a bibliometric approach. The list is suggested as a starting point for a conversation among medical education stakeholders aimed at defining ‘a working consensus on the scope of the field’. Their reason for engaging in this task is to ‘facilitate conducting bibliometric studies and other research designs (e.g., systematic reviews) and to enable individuals to identify themselves as ‘medical education researchers’. As medical educators and researchers, we find this approach interesting and agree that discussions about how we understand and delineate the field of medical education are crucial. In addition, medical education research needs bibliometric analyses to provide a statistically based overview, for example, of the value of writing systematic reviews or to scrutinise dominant forms of knowledge in the field.