JMIR Publications

Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The "Journal of Medical Internet Research" (JMIR; ISSN 1438-8871, Medline-abbreviation: J Med Internet Res) (founded in 1999, now in its 25th year!) is a leading health informatics and health services/health policy journal (ranking in the first quartile Q1 by Impact Factor in these disciplines) focusing on digital health, data science, health informatics and emerging technologies for health, medicine, and biomedical research. The journal is ranked #1 on Google Scholar in the 'Medical Informatics' discipline. 

JMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Internet-related technologies; a broad field, which is known as "eHealth" [see also What is eHealth and What is eHealth (2)], or now also "digital health", which includes mHealth (mobile health). This field also has significant overlaps with what is called "consumer health informatics", health 2.0/medicine 2.0, or participatory medicine. This focus makes JMIR unique among other medical or medical informatics journals, which tend to focus on clinical informatics or clinical applications. As eHealth/mHealth is a highly interdisciplinary field we are not only inviting research papers from the medical sciences, but also from the computer, behavioral, social and communication sciences, psychology, library sciences, informatics, human-computer interaction studies, and related fields.

The term "Internet" is used in its broadest sense, so we are also interested in high impact studies and applications of digital medicine, mobile technologies, social media, novel wearable devices and sensors, connected home appliances, domotics etc.

The journal invites manuscripts that deal with the following topics (the main themes/topics covered by this journal and sample papers can also be found here):

• novel digital health approaches, methods, and devices
• large digital medicine / digital therapeutics trials with clinical impact
• data science, open data
• studies evaluating the impact of Internet/social media use or specific eHealth/mHealth interventions on individual health-related or social outcomes
• evaluations and implementations of innovative mhealth (mobile health) applications, social media apps, ubiquitous computing, or innovative and emerging technologies in health
• descriptions of the design and impact of Internet and mobile applications and websites or social media for consumers/patients or medical professionals
• use of the Internet, social media and mhealth in the context of clinical information and communication, including telemedicine
• use of the Internet, social media, and mhealth in medical research and the basic sciences such as molecular biology or chemistry (e.g. bioinformatics, online factual databases)
• medical information management and librarian sciences
• e-learning and knowledge translation, online-courses, social media, web-based and mobile programs for undergraduate and continuing education,
• eHealth/mHealth and social media applications for public health and population health technology (disease monitoring, teleprevention, teleepidemiology)
• evidence-based medicine and the Internet and mhealth (e.g. online development or dissemination of clinical guidelines, measuring agreement about management of a given clinical problem among physicians, etc.)
• the impact of eHealth/mHealth/pHealth/iHealth, social media, the Internet, or health care technologies on public health, the health care system and policy
• methodological aspects of doing Internet/mhealth/social media research, e.g. methodology of web-based surveys
• design and validation of novel web-based instruments
• ecological momentary assessment, sensors, mobile technologies for gathering and analyzing data in real-time
• analysis of e-communities, social media communities, or virtual social networks
• comparisons of effectiveness of health communication and information on the Internet/mHealth/social media compared with other methods of health communication,
• effects of the Internet/mhealth/social media and information/communication technology on the patient-physician relationship and impact on public health, e.g. the studies investigating how the patient-physician relationship changes as a result of the new ways of getting medical information
• ethical and legal problems as well as cross-border and cross-cultural issues of eHealth/mHealth
• systematic studies examining the quality of medical information available in various online venues
• methods of evaluation, quality assessment and improvement of Internet information or eHealth applications
• proposals for standards in the field of medical publishing on the Internet, including self-regulation issues, policies and guidelines to provide reliable healthcare information
• results and methodological aspects of Internet-based and social media studies, including medical surveys, psychological tests, quality-of-life studies, gathering and/or disseminating epidemiological data, use of the Internet/mobile apps/social media for clinical studies (e-trials), drug reaction reporting and surveillance systems etc.
• electronic medical publishing, Open Access publishing, altmetrics, and use of the Internet or social media for scholarly publishing (e.g. collaborative peer review)
• information needs of patients, consumers and health professionals, including studies evaluating search and retrieval behavior of patients
• web-based studies, e.g. online psychological experiments
• evaluations of mhealth (mobile) applications, as well as ambient / ubiquitous computing approaches, sensors, domotics, and other cutting edge technologies
• personal health records, patient portals, consumer health informatics applications
• behavior change technologies
• Reviews, viewpoint papers and commentaries touching on the issues and themes listed above are also welcome, but should be grounded in data and/or a thorough literature review

In addition, the Journal will occasionally publish original research, reviews and tutorials on more generic, related topics such as:

• Internet standards
• cybermetrics
• security and confidentiality issues
• Internet demographics
• social impact of the Internet
• digital imaging and multimedia
• health care records
• high-speed networks
• telecommunication
• electronic publishing
• software development

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is one of the flagship journals of JMIR Publications and is highly selective. We are not a megajournal that publishes everything regardless of impact. To ensure a rapid turnaround time, we encourage that authors consider other JMIR journal titles as well. While it is possible to transfer submissions from one journal to another before, during or after the review process (based on editorial suggestions), authors can avoid delays in decision-making by submitting to the right journal.

In order to be considered for J Med Internet Res, clinical informatics papers should have a clear connections to the major themes in this journal of consumer/patient empowerment and participatory healthcare, and/or evaluate the use of mobile/Internet-based/emerging technologies such as patient portals. Other clinical informatics studies with no relationship to consumer health informatics, or more technical papers are best submitted to other JMIR journal titles, such as Interactive Journal of Medical Research (i-JMR, a general medical journal with focus on innovation), JMIR mHealth and uHealth, JMIR Medical Informatics, or JMIR Human Factors.

Machine-learning papers: Machine learning papers are now mostly published in JMIR Medical Informatics (see e-collection Machine Learning), JMIR Formative Research or JMIR AI, or another sister journal, unless they have reached clinical maturity and are being used and validated in routine clinical use. Our flagship journal J Med Internet Res no longer publishes ML papers unless 1) they show a direct clinical effect or impact on care, 2) are validated using an independent dataset not used for training, 3) are written in a language that can be understood by a healthcare professional, and provide open source or a publicly available tool that can be used by others to validate or apply the findings. We also request that 4) reporting strictly adheres to the "Guidelines for Developing and Reporting Machine Learning Predictive Models in Biomedical Research". Highly technical papers (with mathematical formulas) are unsuitable for J Med Internet Res or this information needs to be provided in a Multimedia Appendix. 

Digital psychiatry and digital mental health papers are best suited for JMIR Mental Health if they are impactful, otherwise JMIR Formative Research publishes early stage work.

Studies related to public health informatics and surveillance systems should preferably be submitted to JMIR Public Health & Surveillance. JPHS is also highly selective.

Papers with focus on games in health or gamification aspects of apps and theoretical issues/commentary on gaming are now primarily published in / transferred to JMIR Serious Games.

Studies evaluating systematically the quality of health information or present tools for social listening may be best suited for JMIR Infodemiology.

Formative work such as usability studies, pilot studies, and feasibility studies are no longer published in our flagship journals and should be submitted to JMIR Formative Research.

Protocols and proposals can be submitted to JMIR Research Protocols.

Submitted manuscripts are subject to a rigorous but speedy peer review process. We aim for a standard review time of less than 2 months, and a review time of 4 weeks for submission to initial decision for fast-tracked papers).

The review process is designed to help authors to improve their manuscripts by giving them constructive comments on how to improve their paper, and to publish only those articles which comply to general quality criteria of a scholarly paper, especially originality, clarity, references to related work and validity of results and conclusions.

Section Policies

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Editorials*

Editorials are submitted by invitation only. *Article processing fees are waived.

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Digital Health Reviews

Literature reviews, preferably systematic reviews and meta-analyses (authors are asked to follow the QUORUM checklist when submitting reviews), on the impact of digital health, mHealth, wearables, and apps for medicine on health outcomes and health policy.

Note that app and product reviews, where authors systematically searched app stores and review apps, are collected in the section Quality Evaluation and Descriptive Analysis/Reviews of Multiple Existing Mobile Apps. 

Related: 
Wearables and MHealth Reviews

Quality Evaluation and Descriptive Analysis/Reviews of Multiple Existing Mobile Apps

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Commentary

A commentary is published alongside other articles published in JMIR Publications journals. Commentaries are typically invited. Unsolicited commentaries may be considered at the discretion of the editor. They may or may not be peer-reviewed. Articles submitted as a commentary should offer thoughtful criticism of published work, drawing from evidence, expertise, and/or additional perspectives. 

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Policy and Policy Proposals

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Viewpoints and Perspectives

Opinion articles or perspectives papers which would not otherwise qualify as "original papers", because they do not have much original data, but would also not qualify as reviews, because they are based on personal experiences, workshop results, system descriptions etc.

• S. Raquel Ramos, Yale University

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Tutorial

A "how-to" paper on an important practical or research issue. We recommend contacting the editor to discuss the suitability of a topic before submitting it. Submission of slides or audio/video files as supplementary files is strongly recommended.

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e-Learning and Digital Medical Education

Electronic (digital) ways of teaching and learning about health and medicine, primarily for professionals.

See also our dedicated journal JMIR Medical Education

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.
• Mircea Focsa, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara

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Recruitment of Research Participants

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Ethics, Privacy, and Legal Issues

• Khaled El Emam, University of Ottawa

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Engagement with and Adherence to Digital Health Interventions, Law of Attrition

Long-term adherence to digital health interventions is one of the fundamental problems in digital health - how can we make digital health interventions engaging to prevent people/participants to cease use or drop out from studies? This research priority and paradigm was first posited by Eysenbach in the classic highly cited paper "The Law of Attrition", and is also known as "Eysenbach's Law".

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Innovations and Technology for Physical Activity Education

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Theoretical Frameworks and Concepts

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Crowdsourcing and Mechanical Turks

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Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals. Computer science defines AI research as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of successfully achieving its goals. More specifically, Kaplan and Haenlein define AI as “a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through flexible adaptation”. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is applied when a machine mimics "cognitive" functions that humans associate with other human minds, such as "learning" and "problem solving" (Wikipedia).

This JMIR e-collection focuses on methods and approaches using artificial intelligence in health and medicine. 

For clinical decision making see Decision Support for Health Professionals and Clinical Information and Decision Making; for decision support for consumers see also Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making.

For applications in medical education see also ChatGPT and Generative Language Models in Medical Education, 
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Education, Virtual Patients

See also JMIR e-collections on Robotics in Rehabilitation, Chatbots and Conversational Agents, Theme Issue 2022: Chatbots and COVID-19, Robots in Healthcare, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing 

Related Journal (preferred journal for machine-learning/AI applications that are not in clinical routine use): 
JMIR AI

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Chatbots and Conversational Agents

Chatbots are Artificial Intelligence  programs (web-based or using smartphone app/messaging), which are increasingly used in particular for mental health applications (e.g. Depression and Mood Disorders), prevention and Behavior Change applications (such as Smoking Cessation or physical activity interventions). They are based on text-only exchanges between the client and an intelligent software which mimics a coach or therapist.

Related Themes/E-Collections:
ChatGPT and Generative Language Models in Medical Education 
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing

See also: Mobile Health in Psychiatry, mHealth for Wellness, Behavior Change and Prevention, Text-messaging (SMS)-Based Interventions. 

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Innovations and Technology for Healthy Eating Education

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Robots in Healthcare

See also JMIR e-collections on Robotics in Rehabilitation, Chatbots and Conversational Agents, and Artificial Intelligence in Health.

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Epublishing and Open Access

• James Till, University of Toronto & Ontario Cancer Institute

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Internet of Things

• Mircea Focsa, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara

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Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Apps for Health and Medicine

Blockchain technology and decentralized applications (DApps) have the potential to alleviate the traditionally high dependency on centralized, trusted parties for certification of information integrity and data ownership. These distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) mediate transactions and exchanges of digital assets in a decentralized and consensus-driven nature, which allows agreements (ie, smart contracts) to be directly made between interacting parties while guaranteeing their execution. Key properties of blockchain technology, including immutability, decentralization, distribution, replicated storage, and transparency, provide a unique position for this technology to serve as a potential infrastructure to address pressing issues in health care, such as incomplete records at point of care and difficult access to patients’ own health information. 

See also special 2019 theme issue on Blockchain and the call for papers.

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Online Dating, Sexual Health Behavior

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E-Health / Health Services Research and New Models of Care

• Mircea Focsa, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara

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Digital Health Reporting Standards, Quality and Transparency in e-Research

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Virtual Communities and Communities of Practice for Healthcare Providers

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Wikis

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Business and Entrepreneurship in eHealth

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Data Science

Data science is a multi-disciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data. Data science is a similar concept as data mining and big data.

Related E-Collections:

Big Data

Machine Learning

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Brain-Machine Interfaces

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Implantable Drug Delivery Systems, Ingestible Sensors and Digital Pills

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3D Printing

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eHealth Service, Product, Resource Reviews

Guidelines for Electronic Resources Reviews Revised December 2009 The purpose of the new electronic resources reviews section in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is to provide critical appraisals of electronic products and services that assist health care consumers and health professionals to select resources to manage or improve health. The focus is on consumer health informatics products, i.e. applications that have a direct interface to the consumer (although many of these products also have interfaces to health professionals, EMRs etc.). 

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.
• Mircea Focsa, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara

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Digital Science, Open Science

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Registered Report

Registered reports adhere to the highest ethical standards in research and require a protocol to be published (e.g. in JMIR Research Protocols), ideally before data collection. Publishing a protocol (Registered Report Stage 1, or RR1) prevents bias and JMIR's "acceptance in principle" policy for projects with published protocol facilitates publication of study results even if they are negative. 

This category/journal section/e-collection is for papers reporting the results (Registered Report Stage 2, or RR2). The IRRID in the abstract links back to the DOI of the protocol.

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Precision Medicine

Precision medicine uses "big data" and data science to personalize diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for patients, based on their personal genetic and behavioral background. 

Related E-Collections:

Big Data

• Mircea Focsa, Victor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara

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Randomized trials (Editor: G. Eysenbach)*

Meta-analyses and/or systematic reviews are also highly welcome and should be reported in accordance with the QUORUM statement.

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Protocols/Grant Proposals (JMIR Res Protoc)

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is no longer offering to peer-review and publish protocols and grant proposals, but we are happy to consider submissions in this section for a new spin-off journal to be launched in 2012 - JMIR Research Protocols.If your protocol is already peer-reviewed (e.g. as part of a grant proposal), please upload the peer-review report as supplementary file (we may decide to review the protocol only internally if the protocol is already reviewed). Please note that there is a limit of 15 manuscript pages.

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Journal Club CATCH-IT Reports*

CATCH-IT reports are "Critically Appraised Topics in Communication, Health Informatics, and Technology" and are typically short evidence-based critical summaries of a topic or a paper published in another journal. They are typically 1000-1500 words in length. Papers to be discussed in CATCH-IT reports should be selected from the current body of literature, and should not be older than 6 months (in exceptional cases up to 12 months). Selection criteria for papers discussed in a CATCH-IT report include one or more of the following: High quality papers with great potential impact on one or more groups of decision-makers in the health system; Papers illustrating methodological flaws worth discussing (seeking to prevent them in future studies) Papers providing an elegant solution to a (methodological) problem or otherwise addressing timely methodological issues or problems; Illustration of new ideas or concepts that could represent food for reflection and discussion; Direct impact on ongoing research CATCH-IT reports cannot be submitted by authors of the original paper. They should be an unbiased, balanced third-party appraisal of research published elsewhere. CATCH-IT reports may contain questions for the original author and may be peer-reviewed by the author of the original research. The author of the original research will have the opportuniy to publish a response.

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Theme issue 2019: 20th Anniversary Issue

See Call for Papers for more details.

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Theme Issue 2019: Blockchain in Healthcare and Biomedical Research (Guest Editors: Kevin Clausson, Peng Zhang)

Blockchain technology and decentralized applications (DApps) have the potential to alleviate the traditionally high dependency on centralized, trusted parties for certification of information integrity and data ownership. These distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) mediate transactions and exchanges of digital assets in a decentralized and consensus-driven nature, which allows agreements (ie, smart contracts) to be directly made between interacting parties while guaranteeing their execution. Key properties of blockchain technology, including immutability, decentralization, distribution, replicated storage, and transparency, provide a unique position for this technology to serve as a potential infrastructure to address pressing issues in health care, such as incomplete records at point of care and difficult access to patients’ own health information. See call for papers.

See also JMIR e-collection on Blockchain (non-theme issue papers).

• Kevin Clauson, Lipscomb University
• Peng Zhang, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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Theme issue 2019: European Perspective in Connected Health

• Hrvoje Belani, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia
• Brian Caulfield
• Myra Tilney

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Theme issue 2019: Using Technology to Detect, Combat, and Prevent Research Misconduct

• Ana Marušić, University of Split School of Medicine

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Theme Issue: Bayesian Methods In Medical Research

This is an ecollection of papers submitted as a result of our standing Call for Papers to reanalyze trials using a Bayesian Method. Submissions are still accepted!

• Marcus Bendtsen, Linköping University

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Theme Issue on Robotics in Medicine, Psychology, and Psychotherapy (Theme Issue Guest Editor: Eichenberg)

See Call for Papers for more details

• Christiane Eichenberg, Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Christiane Eichenberg Sigmund Freud University Medical Faculty Freudplatz 1 1020 Vienna Tel: +43 (0)1 798 40 98 Fax: +43 (0)1 798 40 98 / 20 E-Mail: christiane.eichenberg@sfu.ac.at

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Theme issue 2018: Health professions digital education: what works best, when, for whom and at what cost?

Key challenges currently facing the ambitions for greater adoption of ever-changing, complex and context-driven digital education, include assuring that new digital education solutions have a secure evidence-base and evaluative mechanisms in place to ensure that their impact can be assessed in relation to both quality and impact on learners. The question today is not anymore whether to use digital education, but rather how, when and which? In other words, what works best, when and for whom—at what cost?

• Josip Car
• Ana Marušić, University of Split School of Medicine
• Lorainne Tudor Car

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Theme Issue (2018): Cybersecurity in Healthcare and Biomedical Research (Guest Editors: Perakslis and Stanley)

Call for papers: http://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/153

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Special Issue on Computing and Mental Health (2018)

Special Issue Guest Editors: Saeed Abdullah, Pennsylvania State University;  Jakob E. Bardram, Technical University of Denmark; Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney; Tanzeem Choudhury, Cornell University; Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research; Elizabeth Murnane, Stanford University; Mirco Musolesi, University College London; John Torous, Harvard Medical School; Greg Wadley, University of Melbourne

Call for papers: http://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/157

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Special Issue (2017) "Mining Online Health Reports" (Guest Editor: Collier, Cox, Limsopatham, Lampos, Culotta, Conway)

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JHU Theme Issue (2017): Use of mobile technologies for national-scale population surveys (Guest Editors: Rosskam, Hyder)

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Special Issue Computing and Mental Health 2016/17 (Guest Editors: Calvo, Dinakar, Torous, Picard, Christensen)

See call for papers - http://www.positivecomputing.org/2016/08/special-issue-of-jmir-on-computing-and.html?spref=tw

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Special Theme Issue (2013): "REHAB 2013" (Guest editors:Lange, Fardoun, and Mashat)

• Habib Fardoun, King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Information Systems Department
• Belinda Lange, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
• Abdulfattah Mashat, King Abdulaziz University

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Special Theme Issue (2013) "Medical Education Informatics" (Guest Editors: Bamidis, Giordano, Zary, Pattichis et al.)

• Panagiotis Bamidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Daniela Giordano, University of Catania
• Constantinos Pattichis, University of Cyprus
• Nabil Zary, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU)

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Special Theme Issue (2013) "Internet of Things" (Guest Editors: Jara, Koch, Ray et al.)

• Antonio Jara, University of Murcia
• Sabine Koch, Karolinska Institutet
• Pradeep Ray, University of New South Wales, Australia

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Connected Health Conference 2018

$250 discount on the APF for presenters at the Boston Connected Health Conference

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Connected Health Conference 2017

20% discount on the APF for presenters at the Boston Connected Health Conference

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Connected Health Symposium 2016

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Medicine 2.0'14 Maui/Malaga (Full Paper of Conference Presentation)

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Medicine 2.0'13 London (Full Paper of Conference Presentation)

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Medicine 2.0'12 Boston (Full Paper of Conference Presentation)

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Medicine 2.0'11 (Full Paper of Conference Presentation)

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Medicine 2.0'10 (Full Paper of Conference Presentation)

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.
• Lisette Van Gemert-Pijnen, universiteit twente

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ISRII Theme Issue 2013

• Gerhard Andersson
• Per Carlbring
• David Mohr, Northwestern University
• Heleen Riper, Vrije Universiteit

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor are exempt from Article Processing Fees. While this journal does publish "Research Letters" (short articles containing original data), JMIR also publishes letters responding to a previously published article. Short articles containing original data should be submitted as general article, not as a letter. A letter to the editor must cite and critique or substantially comment on a recent paper published in JMIR. The letter will be forwarded to the authors of the cited or critiqued article or other reviewers, and original authors will get a chance to respond. While some new data in a letter are allowed, a letter is NOT a short research report.

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Corrigenda and Addenda

This section lists all substantive corrections, additions or changes made to articles and reviews subsequent to their first publication in the journal. Corrigenda are usually submitted by the corresponding author of the original article, or the section editor. Published papers are considered "final", thus JMIR makes corrections to published papers only in exceptional circumstances. Note that while we do not charge to correct errata that are the responsibility of the publisher, we charge a $190 fee for discretionary corrigenda and addenda (please submit a correction under that section, if it is the authors' responsibility/decision to correct or add information to a already published article).

• Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc.

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Discretionary Corrigenda

For corrigenda that are discretionary and a result of author-oversight (e.g., corrections in the affiliation etc.) we charge a $190 processing fee to make changes in the original paper and publish an erratum. Please submit a correction statement (text similar to http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e76/) at http://www.jmir.org/author/submit/1 under the section "Discretionary Corrigenda".

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Connected Health Conference 2019

20% discount on the APF for presenters at the 2019 Connected Health Conference

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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal dedicated to Covid-19 research. 

All papers will be fast tracked and shared with the World Health Organization (WHO) immediately on submission. Please submit field reports, surveillance reports, technologies, apps, protocols and reports on isolation, suppression, treatment protocols, vaccinations, models, case studies, policy recommendations, rapid reviews, telework/telemedicine reports. etc.

See also: 

• Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports - see JMIR Public Health & Surveillance COVID-19 Theme Issue Call for Papers.

• JMIR Theme Issue: Covid-19 Special Issue (Articles submitted in response to the J Med Internet Res Call for Papers)

• JMH Theme Issue COVID-19 and Mental Health: Impact and Interventions (JMIR Mental Health)

• JPP Theme Issue: Digital Approaches for Pediatric Healthcare Delivery during the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic (see JMIR Pediatrics & Parenting Call for Papers)

• Corey Basch, William Paterson University

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Sensors at Home and Domotics

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Innovations in Clinical Trials and Research Data Management

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Drug Repurposing and Off-Label Use

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Digital Pain Assessment and Management

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Voice Assistants

Voice assistants are a subset of artificial intelligence powered chatbots/conversatinal agents that can understand natural human voice and which can respond with an artificial voice.

Examples for voice assistants are Amazon Alexa. Google Assistant. Microsoft Cortana. Samsung Bixby. Apple Siri. IBM Watson. 

See also: 

Artificial Intelligence [Section Id: 797]Chatbots and Conversational Agents [Section Id: 763]

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Symptom Checkers

Symptom checkers (SCs) are tools developed to provide clinical decision support to laypersons.
See also/Related: Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making

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Computerized History Taking

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Theme Issue: Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation

Call for papers: https://www.jmir.org/announcements/275

• Jeremy Faust, Harvard University
• Michael Gisondi, Stanford University
• Michael Gottlieb, Rush University Medical Center
• Ali Raja
• Matthew Strehlow, Stanford University
• Lauren Westafer, Baystate Health

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Digital Medicine Society (DiMe)

Papers sponsored by or related to projects from DiMe, which is a nonprofit professional society dedicated to advancing digital medicine to optimize health.

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Theme Issue 2022: Chatbots and COVID-19

Theme issue for papers related to the WHO webinar series "Chatbots and COVID" as well as submissions related to the call for papers, https://www.jmir.org/announcements/302.

Hebe Gouda MPH, PhD, World Health Organization

Tina D Purnat FAIDH, PMP, World Health Organization, University of Memphis School of Public Health

Gini Arnold, MBA, MA, World Health Organization

Robert Marten, PhD, World Health Organization

Andy Pattison, World Health Organization

• Virginia Arnold, World Health Organization
• Hebe Gouda, World Health Organization
• Robert Marten, World Health Organization
• Andy Pattison, World Health Organization
• Tina Purnat, World Health Organization
• Monta Reinfelde, World Health Organization

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Research Letter

Research Letters present new, early, or preliminary research findings. The text should use standard research headings of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion and should be no longer than 750 words, with a maximum of 10 references and 2 tables or figures. The APF for Research Letters accepted after peer review is lower than the standard APF.

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Theme Issue: The New Digital Normal in Health and Medicine

• Tiffany Leung, JMIR Publications

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Theme Issue 2022: Reproductive Informatics

Theme issue (e-collection) related to role of health information technologies (HIT) in promoting and protecting reproductive health decisions. The original Call for Papers on Reproductive Informatics: Implications for Women's Health and Informed Choice is here.

• Rita Kukafka
• Tiffany Leung, JMIR Publications

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Theme Issue 2022: The Present and Future of Pandemic Technologies

Closed theme issue (sponsored) invited papers on the present and future of pandemic technologies 

Guest Editors:

1. Dennis Krämer, dennis.kraemer@uni-goettingen.de
2. Joschka Haltaufderheide, joschka.haltaufderheide@uni-potsdam.de 
3. Jochen Vollmann, jochen.vollmann@rub.de 

The theme issue was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and carried out as part of the international project "Digital Technologies of the Covid 19 Pandemic - A transnational Dialogue between Germany and Japan".

• Joschka Haltaufderheide, Medical Ethics with focus on Digitization, Joint Faculty of Health Sciences Brandenburg, University of Potsdam
• Dennis Krämer, Interim Professor for Sport and Health Sociology, Georg-August-University Göttingen
• Jochen Vollmann, Director, Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum

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Theme Issue 2023: Women in Medicine and Science

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is proud to present the Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) special e-collection, which is dedicated to highlighting the inequities that exist in communities and health care systems. The publication of this e-collection of invited papers is in partnership with The Women in Medicine Summit (WIMS), a conference designed to amplify the lives of women physicians, practitioners, researchers, and academics in medicine and work towards gender parity in healthcare through skills development, action plans, advocacy, professional growth, education, allyship, empowerment, and inspiration. WIMS brings together the bold thinking and innovative strategies that are needed to fully address such inequities.

Guest Editors

Shikha Jain, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology; Director of Communication Strategies in Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago; Associate Director of Oncology Communication & Digital Innovation, University of Illinois Cancer Center; President & CEO Founder, Women in Medicine® NFP

Jessica Allan, MD, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA

Rakhee K. Bhayani, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

• Jessica Allan, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
• Rakhee Bhayani
• Shikha Jain, University of Illinois

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Theme Issue 2023: Digital Technology for Behavioral Interventions in Aging: Opportunities and Challenges

Innovation in digital medicine over the past 20 years has created opportunities for more scalable and effective behavioral interventions directed at aging populations, and it has helped to streamline the conduction of behavioral trials. However, while some may stand to benefit from technology-driven interventions, others may be left behind; many older adults have less literacy in and access to digital technologies. The “Digital Technology for Behavioral Interventions in Aging: Opportunities and Challenges” theme issue aims to raise awareness of and ultimately improve the way we develop behavioral interventions for aging populations.

Jeffrey Kaye, MD, is the Layton Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Oregon Center for Aging & Technology (ORCATECH) at Oregon Health and Science University.

Ian Kronish, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Associate Director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health.

Elaine Wethington, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Sociology at Cornell University and Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. 

Invited papers only 

• Jeffrey Kaye, Oregon Health & Science University
• Ian Kronish, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Elaine Wethington, Cornell University

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Environmentally Sustainable Health Care and Climate Change Initiatives

Contributions of telehealth, virtual consulting or other health care innovations to the net zero agenda; development and implementation of medical or health care programs to support increased environmental sustainability; projects and initiatives to combat or respond to climate change

See also: 
Environmental Health

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Generative Language Models Including ChatGPT

See also:

JMIR Medical Education: Theme Issue: ChatGPT and Generative Language Models in Medical Education

JMIR Nursing - Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT in Nursing

JMIR Human Factors - Theme Issue on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Factors—Towards Successful Application of AI in Health Care

JMIR Cardio - Generative and Multimodal Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Digital Cardiovascular Medicine

JMIR Mental Health - Theme Issue on “Responsible Design, Integration, and Use of Generative AI in Mental Health

JMIR Aging - Using AI Tools to Improve Health and Health Care for Older Adults

Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal - API Health and Nursing Care

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Theme Issue 2024: 25 Years of Digital Health Excellence

JMIR Publications, the pioneering publisher of open access research dedicated to digital health, is proud to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Over the past quarter-century, we have witnessed an incredible transformation in the field of digital health. To commemorate this significant milestone, we invite authors to contribute to a theme issue that reflects on the evolution and impact of digital health technologies, interventions, methods, and policy issues over the last 25 years.

Call for Papers

Related issue:

Theme issue 2019: 20th Anniversary Issue

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Health Information Governance

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News and Perspectives

Articles in this section are written by journalists. They are not peer-reviewed but rigorously fact-checked. We invite freelance journalists to pitch us original ideas.

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Theme Issue 2024: The Emergence of Medical Futures Studies

For more information, refer to Call for Papers: Theme Issue: The Emergence of Medical Futures Studies

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Peer Review Process

When we receive a manuscript, an assessment will be made to ensure the manuscript meets the formal criteria specified in the Instructions for Authors and that it fits within the scope of the journal. When in doubt, the editor will consult other members of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts are then assigned to a Section Editor, who sends it to 2-4 external experts for peer review. Authors are required to suggest at least 2 peer-reviewers (who do not have a conflict of interest) during the submission process.

Peer reviewing is a single-blind process as the reviewers are aware of the names of the authors. Review feedback is anonymous when shared with the authors during the review process. Reviewers for JMIR journals will not stay anonymous as their names appear at the end of the published article. Authors and reviewers should not contact each other directly to discuss manuscripts or reviews.

Speed of Peer-Review

The Internet is a fast-moving field and we acknowledge the need of our authors to communicate their findings rapidly. We therefore aim to be extremely fast (but still thorough and rigorous) in our peer-review process. For example, the paper "Factors Associated with Intended Use of a Web Site Among Family Practice Patients" (J Med Internet Res 2001;3(2):e17) was reviewed, edited, type-set and published within only 16 days. Including the two weeks time authors needed to revise their article, from first submission to final publication less than 1 month passed. (note that current turnaround times needed to review and edit papers vary, and primarily depend on the quality of the paper upon first submission!). Normally we can not give any guarantees on the speed of peer-review or publication - except if a paper has been submitted under the fast-track scheme, where we guarantee an editorial decision within 20 working days (4 weeks) and publication of the article within 4 weeks after acceptance. We aim for an average decision time of 2 months after submission for papers sent out for peer-review. There will however always be outliers (papers which are more difficult to evaluate)

Current statistics on turnaround time show that on average it takes 50 days to make an initial decision (29 days for fast-tracked papers). (see 1.4 on the stats page)

Criteria for Selection of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should meet the following criteria: the study conducted is ethical (see below); the material is original; the writing is clear; the study methods are appropriate; the data are valid; the conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data; the information is important; and the topic is interesting for our readership. It is recognized that many submissions will describe websites and other Internet-based services. The Editorial Board strongly recommends that authors of such submissions make efforts to evaluate and if possible quantify the impact of these services. Submissions containing evaluations are more likely to be accepted than those containing descriptions of services alone, unless the service includes significant innovation. More descriptive papers - ideally with an evaluation plan - can be submitted to JMIR Res Protoc. Formative research, feasibility and pilot studies should be submitted to JMIR Formative Res (see also Publication Strategy article in our Knowledge Base).

Ethical Issues

Internet-based research raises novel questions of ethics and human dignity (see for example KB article on Ethics in Social Media Research). If human subjects are involved, informed consent, protection of privacy and other human rights are further criteria against which the manuscript will be judged. Papers describing investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the study was approved by the institutional review board, in accordance with all applicable regulations, and that informed consent was obtained after the nature and possible consequences of the studies were explained. JMIR is also encouraging articles devoted to the ethics of Internet-based research. In addition, as mentioned in the conflict of interest article, we will ask authors to disclose any competing interests in relation to their work.

For more information on JMIR Publications' ethics policies, please visit our Knowledge Base (KB), here.

Publication Frequency

This journal publishes articles continuously, i.e. articles are published online as soon as they are available (peer-reviewed and copy-edited).

Open Access Policy

All journals published by JMIR Publications provide immediate open access to their content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and accelerates research. Copyright is retained by the authors, and articles can be freely used and distributed by others. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published by JMIR Publications, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information (authors, title, journal, volume/issue, and article ID), a link to the original publication (URL), and this copyright and license information (“Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution cc-by 4.0”) must be included.

Please do not contact the publisher for “reprint permission” requests because, by default, this permission has already been given by authors (under the condition of attribution of the original source), and the publisher does NOT own the copyright for the material published. The authors retain the copyright, unless stated otherwise.

Author Self-Archiving

Indexing and Impact Factor

JMIR is indexed in more than 18 bibliographic databases and abstracting services, including MEDLINE [Index Medicus], PubMed, PMC, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ Seal), CINAHL, Information Science Abstracts, INSPEC (Institution of Electrical Engineers), Communication Abstracts, The Informed Librarian Online, LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts), EMBASE, Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded, PsycINFO, CABI, LISTA (Library / Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts), ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) database, CSA Social Services Abstracts database, EBSCO, and others.

In 2024, JMIR received a Journal Impact Factor™ of 5.8 (5-Year Journal Impact Factor™: 6.7) according to the latest release of the Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2024.

JMIR continues to be a Q1 journal in many categories and many indices, for example:

* Q1 journal in "Health Informatics" (Scopus data: CiteScore 14.4, ranked 7/138, 95th percentile)
* Q1 journal in "Health Care Sciences & Services" (ranked 9/174) (Source: Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2023)
* Q1 journal in "Medical Informatics" (ranked 5/44) (Source: Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate, 2023)
* Q1 journal by Scimago Journal Rank (Health Informatics)
* Q1 journal ranked #1 on Google Scholar "Medical Informatics"

In the German VHB Ranking of Business journals, J Med Internet Res has a B-rating, corresponding to "important and reputable journals" ("wichtige und angesehene wissenschaftliche Zeitschriften"). 

Editorial Board Policy

Purpose:

The Editorial Board comprises a group of outstanding individuals committed to assisting JMIR Publications in producing an excellent multidisciplinary scientific publication of the highest quality.

Selection criteria for Editorial Board members:

Editorial Board members are appointed by the publisher (or, in some instances, the Editor-in-Chief) for a 3-year term that is renewable. Editorial Board members should have reviewed for JMIR Publications and have published at least one article with JMIR Publications. Although some exceptions are possible, Editorial Board members should not sit on editorial boards of competing journals during their term. Nominations for Editorial Board appointments come from a variety of sources including the current Editorial Board, journal authors, and readers. Any self-nominations will be assessed by the publisher and/or Editor-in-Chief. The editorial board should constitute an appropriate interdisciplinary mix from a wide range of disciplines including health care researchers; researchers from the engineering sciences, social sciences; and, where appropriate, patient representatives. Editorial Board members should be productive and respected members of the scientific community. In addition, JMIR Publications is actively looking for consumer representation on its board. Being an Editorial Board member for JMIR Publications means that actual work is required, so Editorial Board members should have sufficient time and motivation.

Main responsibilities include:

• Advocacy for open-access publishing, in general, and publishing high-quality work in JMIR Publications, specifically
• Strategic and operational advice (unsolicited as well as in Editorial Board meetings)
• Guidance for papers in their area of expertise through the peer-review process

Individuals interested in joining the Editorial Board should read the FAQ article on How to become an EB member.

Record Keeping and Research Policy

For record keeping, accountability, and research purposes, JMIR Publications reserves the right to retain all communications and manuscripts (including rejected manuscripts) in its manuscript management system, unless submitting authors explicitly ask for removal of the records. Although authors retain the copyright to their work, when submitting a manuscript, they agree that JMIR Publications has the right to (but is not obliged to) internally store and retain manuscripts and communications indefinitely. Submitting authors also acknowledge that the JMIR publisher, editor, or their designates have the right to analyze communications and statistics, for example, for peer-review research, education, marketing, and other purposes. Excerpts from communications may be quoted in research and educational or marketing publications if the author remains anonymous.

Subscriptions (Membership)

Readers are invited to join the FREE electronic content alert service by registering here. Registered readers also receive access to a free PDF sample issue.

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is an open access journal - articles are available free of charge as HTML files. Frequent readers and researchers working in the ehealth field are encouraged to become a paying/supporting individual or institutional member, which provides additional benefits such as downloading articles or entire issues as PDF files, or (for some institutional memberships) Article Processing Fee waivers or discounts, to encourage faculty and students to publish in JMIR. By becoming a member you support the overarching mission of the journal, which is to improve health through prudent use of information and communication technology.

Theme Issues and Guest Editors

JMIR Publications journals reach tens of thousands of readers interested in information and communication technologies in health, and is therefore the preeminent knowledge translation venue in this area. We are happy to support, produce and co-edit JMIR Publications theme Issues as major knowledge translation activities in important and emerging areas of ehealth, with leaders in the respective fields as guest editors. We are looking for guest editors who wish to compile a theme issue on a special topic (e.g., electronic publishing, telemedicine, quality of health information, patient education, decision-support, Internet in psychiatry, theory in ehealth, mobile technologies, Web 2.0, and other topics). This may be of particular interest for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (e.g. with invited experts) on an eHealth-related topic. JMIR Publications journals are excellent dissemination vehicles of ehealth-related workshop results.

Theme issues may also be used as a knowledge dissemination vehicle for results from large collaborative grant-funded projects. Theme issues may contain, for example, state-of-the-art papers from selected/invited experts, research results from a large grant proposal (e.g. a series of connected studies), or simply articles submitted in response to a specific open call for papers.

For more details, please read our Knowledge Base articles:

• How to guest edit a theme issue
• How to suggest a theme issue
• What are the forthcoming theme issues?

Trademarks and Service Marks Policy

Certain names, graphics, logos, icons, designs, words, titles, or phrases on this website or in JMIR Publications journal articles may constitute trade names, trademarks, or service marks of JMIR Publications or other entities. As customary in scholarly articles, trademarks and service marks are not necessarily indicated as such by using the trademark (TM), service mark (SM), or registered trademark (R) symbols. Omission of these symbols does not imply the absence of a trademark registration. The display of trademarks on pages on this website does not imply that a license of any kind has been granted. JMIR, Medicine 2.0, Healthbook, and WebCite are registered trademarks owned by JMIR Publications.

Fee Schedule

Please note that an optional fast track fee is available for all journals for $450 USD.

*Introductory offer

**Article Processing Fees (APFs) are only charged in case of acceptance, at the time of acceptance. In case of price increases, the submission date determines the price of the APF

Our fees are comparable to or lower than the fees of other Open Access publishers - click on this link to see the comparison.

For details please see our FAQ on Fees and Payment.

The following policies are valid for all journals published by JMIR Publications.

Why Fees?

JMIR Publications (JMIR) does not charge a submission fee. An article processing fee (APF) is charged upon acceptance.

We aim to publish widely indexed, carefully copyedited, high-quality manuscripts, that are also deposited in repositories such as PubMed Central. Publication of an accepted paper requires expensive production steps such as copyediting, reference checking and XML tagging. In the editing & production stage, JMIR employs professional full-time staff and freelancers, including copyeditors (most journals such as PLOS do not include copyediting). To defray these costs (and because we do not sell subscriptions like toll-access journals) we require authors to pay certain fees. Authors publishing in JMIR are paying a an article processing fee (APF) only in case of acceptance, and (optionally) a fast-track fee for expedited review. These fees are usually funded from research grants, and new researchers in the area are urged to budget for open access publications in their grant proposals, much as they budget for conference presentations (please budget about $2000 per article). When comparing the costs for publishing in JMIR against the cost of publishing in other OA journals, please consider that 1) JMIR is consistently ranked #1 in its field by impact factor, 2) JMIR employs professional copyediting after acceptance, which is a service many OA journals with lower costs do not provide. Given these considerations, JMIR is currently one of the most cost-effective OA journals on the market. For a detailed fee overview see Instructions for Authors.

Non-Credit Card Payment Handling Fees

There is a 7% handling fee for non-credit card payments (by cheque or wire). Links to the bank account and cheque payment information are on the contact page.

Article Processing Fee Refund Policy

An invoice for the Article Processing Fee (APF) will be made out after acceptance (authors can also generate their invoices on their user homepage). The full fee will also be charged (and is non-refundable) if the article has been accepted but later cannot be published due to factors which are the responsibility of the author(s), for example, (a) the paper is, for any reason, withdrawn by the author after acceptance; (b) a copyright violation, case of plagiarism, undisclosed duplicate publication, or other form of scientific misconduct (eg, fabricating data) is discovered after acceptance, thereby preventing us from publishing the paper or requiring a retraction; (c) the paper cannot be published because the authors fail to provide the signed publication forms. In all these cases, the full fee will be charged, regardless of the stage the manuscript is at, as long as the manuscript has already been accepted by the editor before withdrawal. The APF is also not refundable for articles which are retracted after publication, either by the author(s) or the editor due to scientific misconduct.  

We also reserve the right to charge the full or partial fee if a copyright violation, case of plagiarism, undisclosed duplicate publication, multiple journal submission, or other form of scientific misconduct was discovered during peer review or after acceptance.

All co-authors share the responsibility for payment of the APF. We reserve the right to not consider further submissions from any author or co-author or users from institutions/departments which have unpaid invoices.

The APF is fully refundable if the paper cannot be published due to factors which are the responsibility of the editor, journal or publisher.  

Fees for Discretionary Corrigenda and Addenda

Authors are invited to submit short addenda to exisiting manuscripts (including additional appendices, updates, additional material), or publish "discretionary" corrigenda such as missing acknowledgements, missing affiliations etc. There is a fee of $190 for the publication of such corrigenda/addenda (which also involves fixing the original paper and resubmitting information to various databases), if the error/omission was already in the proofs approved by authors.

JMIR Article Processing Fee Waiver Policy

Only the APF can be waived, and only in exceptional circumstances. Please contact the editor BEFORE submission to get an informal opinion on whether or not a particular paper/topic may get sufficient priority for an APF waiver. You will also need to fill in an application form, signed by ALL coauthors, and ALL of their department heads, confirming that no other funds are available. The application form with all signatures of all coauthors and their department chairs should preferably be made on submission (upload a scanned form as a supplementary file). In exceptional cases we grant fee waivers, but we have to set the bar high for these exceptions, as any APF waiver means that we have to subsidize the publication, even though we are not a granting agency. Usually the onus is on the author to find funding sources from any entity that benefits from publication of the article. For example, due to the high impact-factor ranking of JMIR, usually your department benefits directly or indirectly from publication of the article, so in the absence of extramural funding we would expect the department to carry the costs. Article Processing Fees (APFs) for Open Access journals have become an increasingly accepted method to defray the costs for publication, and fortunately most institutions have developed mechanisms and funding sources to cover publication costs in high-quality open access journals. Most researchers pay APFs from their grants (if you have money to travel to conferences, you also have money to pay for an APF – both are knowledge dissemination activities!). If this is not the case, institutions and departments may have funds or bursaries for such purposes. Some institutions or departments may have purchased an institutional JMIR membership – the APF is automatically waived if the corresponding author is from an institutional member. JMIR is waiving APFs for non-members only under exceptional circumstances if all of the following conditions are met: 1) neither of the authors (including coauthors) have funding sources enabling them to carry the APF 2) or: in case of having a funding source (e.g. a project/research sponsor listed in the “Acknowledgements”), the funding source(s) declined to pay for open access publishing charges, 3) the departments/institutions of all authors have no funds, bursaries, or other means to pay for open access charges. In order to consider an application for a fee waiver, we require in writing from each coauthor a written declaration that they have explored all avenues of potential funding. We need these declarations from each co-author, each counter-signed by the head of the department or university mentioned in the authors’ affiliation lines. If an author lists multiple affiliations, we need to have the head/chair/director from each affiliation sign the form (APF Waiver Form). If a funding source (e.g. granting agency, foundation etc.) is named as a project sponsor in the acknowledgement section of an article, we require a written statement signed by a representative of that sponsor explicitly declining payment of the APF and explaining why (we are not aware of any major funders not covering APFs, so we need assurance that the funder has been approached by the authors). We reserve the right to publish a blacklist and our experiences with certain institutions or funders who have no open access-friendly policies, ultimately to put public pressure on these organizations. Requests for APF waivers are usually not granted if any coauthor is from a institution which is a signatory of the “Compact for Open Access Equity” (OACOMPACT) (http://www.oacompact.org/signatories/), as in these cases there is documented and guaranteed institutional financial help available to cover publication fees. In this case it is the responsibility of the author to contact the respective university body (OACOMPACT contacts) to request financial support for the APF. This includes for example authors from the following institutions (check http://www.oacompact.org/signatories/ for an updated list and details - do NOT contact us to inquire about details): • Cornell University • Dartmouth College • Harvard University • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • University of California at Berkeley • University of Ottawa • Columbia University • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center If any author has any of these organizations listed in their affiliation lines, and payment of the APF has been turned down by the OACOMPACT contact, we will require a letter from the OACOMPACT contacts addressed to the author detailing why an author-application for financial help has been rejected. APF waivers are usually not granted if one author is affiliated with a commercial for-profit organization, or a commercial organization being acknowledged as sponsor of the project. We will make a case-by-case decision if the CEO or another management-level officer of the company provides us with a compelling reason why payment of APF is not possible. If an article has been approved for a fee waiver, the following statement will be added to the “acknowledgements” of the publication: “Publication of this article was co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical Internet Research. All authors declared that they failed to identify any funding source for the project described in the paper to enable coverage of the publication costs. All department/division heads/chairs of the author institutions have declared that no institutional funding mechanisms for knowledge dissemination activities and/or coverage of open access publishing costs at their department or university level exist.” Note that we will treat any cases of forged signatures or false declarations as scientific misconduct.

Instructions for Authors

All journals published by JMIR Publications, including the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) and other JMIR Publications journals, are innovative, international, peer-reviewed health science journals that aim to publish articles relevant for health care professionals, system developers, and system users alike.

Manuscripts are considered with the understanding that they have not been published previously in print or electronic format and are not under consideration by another print or electronic publisher. A complete report following a presentation at a meeting or the publication of preliminary findings elsewhere (e.g., in an abstract) will be considered. Material that has been published on the Internet (including Preprint servers) can also be considered, but any previous or simultaneous publication on the Internet must be disclosed in the cover letter. Include copies of potentially duplicative material that has been previously published or is currently being considered elsewhere and provide links to duplicative material on the Internet. Point out possible overlaps with previously published or simultaneously submitted articles in your cover letter. Note that "duplicate submission or publication is not necessarily unethical, but failure to disclose the existence of duplicate articles, manuscripts, or other related material to editors and readers (covert duplication) is unethical and may represent a violation of copyright law." (AMA Manual of Style, 10th edition, p. 148). A content overlap of just 10% may be considered duplicative. For more information: What should be included in a cover letter?

JMIR Publications requires that all authors / coauthors have an ORCID (a unique researcher identifier) at the time of publication. Application for an ORCID is free of charge and only takes a few minutes - please go to ORCID.org to apply for one. We also recommend that corresponding authors contact all of their coauthors and encourage them to obtain an ORCID during the manuscript preparation process. While they can be added after submission, ORCIDs are required in case of acceptance.

Please review our Fee Schedule prior to submission to confirm the article processing fee for JMIR Publications journals.

Our requirements for submitted manuscripts are in accordance with the recommendations drawn up by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. For general information about the structure and content of a biomedical manuscript, authors should become familiar with the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals before reading our specific instructions for authors below.

The following instructions for authors are valid for all JMIR Publications journals. Additional journal-specific instructions may also apply so please also be sure to look for those below. Author instructions are subject to revision so please refer to them frequently before submitting your manuscript.

A Word-template of an article compatible with journals from JMIR Publications can be downloaded from https://asset.jmir.pub/assets/public/InstructionsForAuthorsOfJMIR.docx.

Papers should be written in accordance with the American Medical Association Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors, 11^th Edition (Oxford University Press; 2020)              

Format for Original Papers (for other paper types see What are the article types for JMIR journals?)

The following format ("IMRD Format") must be used for the paper:

Title

Abstract (not exceeding 450 words for structured abstracts)

Keywords 

Introduction (e.g. theory, hypotheses, prior work)

Methods (e.g. with the subheadings "Recruitment", "Statistical Analysis", etc.) 

Results (e.g. user statistics, evaluation outcomes). If your study consists of different stages/parts, subheadings in this section should mirror subheadings in the methods section to describe these parts. 

Discussion (e.g. with the subheadings "Principal Results", "Limitations", "Comparison with Prior Work", "Conclusions")

Acknowledgements (How should the "Acknowledgments" section be formatted?)

Conflicts of Interest (How does JMIR Publications define a Conflict of Interest (COI)?)

[optional] Multimedia Appendix of supplementary files (e.g. a PowerPoint presentation of a conference talk about the study, additional screenshots of a website, mpeg/ Quicktime video or audio files, or Excel, Access, SAS, or SPSS files containing original data) 

Abbreviations

Data Availability

References 

Please use further subheadings within the main "Introduction," "Methods," "Results," and "Discussion" sections. For example, if you describe three different methods, use three subheadings within the "Methods" section. Also, use matching subheadings in the "Results" section if you report the results from each of the described methods.

Please read this article regarding the reporting of P values.  

Authors who are not sure how to report their quantitative results should consult this book: How to Report Statistics in Medicine: Annotated Guidelines for Authors, Editors, and Reviewers, Second Edition (American College of Physicians, 2006)

To submit your paper, create a user account as author and submit the paper in the author section of your user homepage. Note that the references can be in any format, as long as the in-text citations are sequentially numbered in the manuscript with square brackets and as long as the reference at the end has a PMID in the format PMID:123456.

As a service to our authors, we offer the possibility to have a submission considered in other JMIR Publications journals. This means that the manuscript and peer-review reports may be transferred to another JMIR Publications journal, if the paper is not found suitable for publication in this journal. 

According to COPE, plagiarism is defined as “When somebody presents the work of others (data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgment”. JMIR Publications policy on plagiarism is available here: How does JMIR Publications define plagiarism? 

For any additional information, please consult our Author Hub for Author-related FAQs. 

For any additional assistance or information, you can also file a ticket with the Helpdesk.

About the Publisher

Vision

At JMIR Publications we envision a world where people are empowered by health research and technology to make effective, informed decisions, take control of their health and well-being, and live happier and healthier lives.

Mission Statement

Through leading-edge thinking, community involvement, and continuous innovation, we help leaders in the health technology space to collaborate and disseminate their ideas and research results. We connect vetted, quality research outputs in novel, effective, and timely ways with those who need it.

History

JMIR Publications is a rapidly growing, leading open access publisher. The company was built on the success of JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research), which started in 1998 as a pioneering, small independent open access project hosted at a university, which subsequently grew into the most influential journal in medical informatics (ranked in Q1 by Impact Factor by Thomson Reuters as well as Scimago) and e-health services research. Due to the growth in influence and submissions, and to make the operations more sustainable and professional, the journal was incorporated as a company in 2011. Shortly after incorporation, several sister journals were launched. Currently, JMIR Publications Inc. publishes more than 3,500 articles annually in more than 30 journals. See the JMIR Publications site for more details.

New Journal / Editor-in-Chief Proposals

JMIR Publications is an open access academic publisher based in Toronto, Canada, and is the leading publisher of peer-reviewed journals in the ehealth domain. We are the leading open access publisher focusing on technology and bioengineering in health, and are expanding into other areas.

Our mission is to reinvent scholarly communication through grassroots, researcher-driven innovation in every aspect of peer-reviewed publishing, making use of Internet, social media, and mobile technologies, and we are currently expanding into other science domains. Recent successful journal launches include JMIR Infodemiology, JMIR Research Protocols and Interactive Journal of Medical Research (i-JMR).

To expand our journal portfolio, we are continuously looking for gaps in the journal market, societies interested in creating new journals or looking for new publishers, and visionary and highly regarded scientists, primarily working at the intersections between technology and medicine, to lead the creation and development of new journals in emerging disciplines and rapidly expanding research areas. Building on the JMIR brand, recent new titles include JMIR Bioinformatics and JMIR Biomedical Engineering. Individual titles without the JMIR branding in the title are also a possibility.

Proposed Editors-in-Chief must be highly regarded and cited individuals (evidenced by their list of publications and their h-index, generally at least 15-20) and must have a clear vision for their journal, including a plan to solicit editorial board members and the first 20 submissions. The application process (which can be done by a society or an individual) consists of developing a journal proposal containing these details. Ongoing tasks will be to guide submissions through the peer-review process, (light) academic editing of submissions, and liaising with the JMIR production team. An honorarium/stipend may be paid.

Applications process: To apply as Editor-in-Chief for new journals, or as a society/community proposing a new journal, please develop and submit a journal proposal, outlining the following:

• A short bio of the Editor-in-Chief, and a dump of the most cited publications (e.g. from Web of Science, Google Scholar, or Scopus), ranked by the number of citations, showing the h-index of the applicant (e.g., first 20 publications which are cited more than 20 times = h-index of 20).
• Name of the future journal ("JMIR [Discipline]" or an independent title not building on the JMIR brand)
• Scope and mission of the journal
• An estimate of the "market" size in terms of how many papers per year in this discipline are published, with projections (e.g., search PubMed). We are primarily interested in growing disciplines
• List competitor/similar journals and their impact factors, and how the new journal would distinguish itself from them
• Example titles for 10-20 articles to be published
• A list of future possible editorial board members
• A clear plan on how to solicit the first 20 papers for the new journal
• A list of other publishers you may have contacted or are in negotiation with (and their terms, and what you like or dislike about them, if applicable)

Please email your application documents to ed-support@jmir.org with the subject line "editor-in-chief [journalname]".

Publication Ethics and Malpractice

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is a member of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) and JMIR Publications is in the process of converting its journal-level COPE membership into a publisher-level membership for JMIR Publications journals. The entire publication process from submission, review, to publication in all JMIR Publications manuscripts, adheres to COPE guidelines, and suspected cases of misconduct (e.g., including plagiarism) will be investigated using COPE Flowcharts. Authors are expected to review COPE guidelines to ensure their studies and publications adhere to guidance therein. In addition, all JMIR Publications journals adhere to the guidelines stated in the WMA Helsinki Declaration. Authors may also refer to this discussion regarding ethical issues in qualitative research on the Internet. 

JMIR Publications also provides guidance on authorship, retractions, corrections, and publishing malpractices (such as misconduct). For more information on JMIR Publications' ethics policies, please visit our Knowledge Base (KB), here.

Research Using Human Subjects

All JMIR Publications journals require that all studies on human subjects have approval from the Institutional Review Board (IRB) or equivalent body. IRB approval/exemption along with gender and age of all subjects should be clearly stated in all papers involving studies on humans and/or uploaded as supplementary material. The editors reserve the right to request such documentation. 

Similarly, authors must acknowledge that informed consent was obtained for studies on humans after the nature and possible consequences of the studies are explained. All JMIR Publications journals require authors to provide a statement that informed consent was obtained from participants in any research involving human subjects. In all JMIR Publications journals, authors of manuscripts describing studies of internet and digital tools and technologies are required to verify that they complied with informed consent guidelines when necessary and have adhered to local, national, regional, and international law and regulations regarding protection of personal information, privacy, and human rights. 

Conflicts of Interest

A Conflict of Interests section is mandatory for all manuscripts. Conflict of interest exists when an author (or the author's institution), reviewer, or editor has financial or personal relationships that inappropriately influence (bias) his or her actions (such relationships are also known as dual commitments, competing interests, or competing loyalties). These relationships vary from those with negligible potential to those with great potential to influence judgment, and not all relationships represent true conflict of interest. The potential for conflict of interest can exist whether or not an individual believes that the relationship affects his or her scientific judgment. Financial relationships (such as employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony) are the most easily identifiable conflicts of interest and the most likely to undermine the credibility of the journal, the authors, and of science itself. However, conflicts can occur for other reasons, such as personal relationships, academic competition, and intellectual passion. In all JMIR journals, conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) employment at and/or ownership of stocks or stock options in companies whose products/apps/software were evaluated. If no conflicts exist, please write "Conflict of Interests - None declared" (place after "Acknowledgements", before the References section). For further information please read our Knowledge Base article on How does JMIR define a Conflict of Interest (COI)?

When reporting experiments on human subjects, authors should indicate IRB (Institutional Reserch Board, also known as REB) approval/exemption and whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000 (5). If doubt exists whether the research was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, the authors must explain the rationale for their approach, and demonstrate that the institutional review body explicitly approved the doubtful aspects of the study. When reporting experiments on animals, authors should be asked to indicate whether the institutional and national guide for the care and use of laboratory animals was followed. 

Consistent with best practices in research, informed consent and the ability of participants to opt out should usually be provided. However, for certain types of research, informed consent cannot be obtained (e.g. analyses of Twitter postings, A/B testing of websites etc). In these cases, the investigator should comment on the criteria proposed by Eysenbach & Till (BMJ 2001) and obtain IRB approval, which is often particularly important for research with mental health e-communities.

Patients have a right to privacy that should not be infringed without informed consent. Identifying information, including patients' names, initials, or hospital numbers, should not be published in written descriptions, photographs, and pedigrees unless the information is essential for scientific purposes and the patient (or parent or guardian) gives written informed consent for publication. Informed consent for this purpose requires that a patient who is identifiable be shown the manuscript to be published.

Identifying details should be omitted if they are not essential. Complete anonymity is difficult to achieve, however, and informed consent should be obtained if there is any doubt. For example, masking the eye region in photographs of patients is inadequate protection of anonymity. If identifying characteristics are altered to protect anonymity, such as in genetic pedigrees, authors should provide assurance that alterations do not distort scientific meaning and editors should so note.

When informed consent has been obtained, it should be indicated in the published article.

Authors should identify individuals who provide writing assistance and disclose the funding source for this assistance.

Criteria for the Selection of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should meet the following criteria:

1. The study conducted is ethical and the material is original.
2. The writing is clear.
3. The study methods are appropriate.
4. The data are valid.
5. The conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data.
6. The information is important.
7. The topic is interesting for our readership.

We are aware that many submissions will describe websites and other internet-based services. The Editorial Board strongly recommends that authors of such submissions make every effort to evaluate and, if possible, quantify the impact of these services. Submissions containing evaluations are more likely to be accepted than those containing basic descriptions of services alone, unless the service includes significant innovation. More descriptive papers, ideally with an evaluation plan, can be submitted to JMIR Research Protocols. Formative research such as feasibility/pilot studies of digital and non-digital interventions should be submitted to JMIR Formative Research (see our Publication Strategy article).

Ethical Issues and Considerations

Journal of Medical Internet Research is a member of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). The entire publication process from submission, review, to publication in all JMIR publications, adheres to the COPE guidelines, and suspected cases of misconduct will be investigated using COPE Flowcharts. Authors are expected to review COPE guidelines to ensure their studies and publications adhere to guidance therein. In addition, all JMIR journals adhere to the guidelines stated in the WMA Helsinki Declaration. Authors may also refer to this discussion regarding ethical issues in qualitative research. 

In all JMIR journals, authors of manuscripts describing studies of internet and digital tools and technologies are required to verify that they complied with informed consent guidelines when necessary and have adhered to local, national, regional, and international law and regulations regarding protection of personal information, privacy, and human rights. 

For more information on JMIR Publications' ethics policies, please visit our Knowledge Base (KB), here.

Copyright Notice

Unless stated otherwise, all articles are open-access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work (e.g. first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research) is properly cited with the original URL and bibliographic citation information. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on jmir.org as well as the copyright and license information must be included.

New Journal / Editor-in-Chief Proposals

JMIR Publications is an open access academic publisher based in Toronto, Canada and the leading publisher of peer-reviewed journals in the ehealth domain. We are the leading open access publisher focusing on technology and bioengineering in health and associated areas. Our mission is to reinvent research communication through grassroots, researcher-driven innovation in every aspect of peer-reviewed publishing, making use of Internet, social media, and mobile technologies, and we are currently expanding into other science domains.

Recent successful journal launches include JMIR Research Protocols and interactive Journal of Medical Research. To expand our journal portfolio, we are continuously looking for gaps in the journal market, societies interested in creating new journals or looking for new publishers, and visionary and highly regarded scientists, primarily working at the intersections between technology and medicine, to lead the creation and development of new journals in emerging disciplines and rapidly expanding research areas. Building on the JMIR brand, possible new titles could include JMIR Bioinformatics, JMIR Biomedical Engineering, or individual titles without the JMIR branding in the title.

Proposed Editors-in-Chief must be highly regarded and cited individuals (evidenced by their list of publications and their h-index, generally at least 15-20) and must have a clear vision for their journal, including a plan to solicit editorial board members and the first 20 submissions. The application process (which can be done by a society or an individual) consists of developing a journal proposal containing these details. Ongoing tasks will be to guide submissions through the peer-review process, (light) academic editing of submissions, and liaising with the JMIR Publications production team. An honorarium/stipend may be paid.

Applications process: To apply as Editor-in-Chief for new journals, or as a society/community proposing a new journal, please develop and submit a journal proposal, outlining the following:

• A short bio of the editor in chief, and a dump of the most cited publications (e.g. from Web of Science, Google Scholar, or Scopus), ranked by the number of citations, showing the h-index of the applicant (e.g. first 20 publications which are cited more than 20 times = h-index of 20)
• Name of the future journal ("JMIR [Discipline]" or an independent title not building on the JMIR brand)
• Scope and mission of the journal
• An estimate of the "market" size in terms of how many papers per year in this discipline are published, with projections (e.g. search PubMed). We are primarily interested in growing disciplines
• List competitor/similar journals and their impact factors, and how the new journal would distinguish itself from them
• Example titles for 10-20 articles to be published
• A list of future possible editorial board members
• A clear plan on how to solicit the first 20 papers for the new journal
• A list of other publishers you may have contacted or are in negotiation with (and their terms, and what you like or dislike about them, if applicable)

Please email your application documents to the Editorial team with the subject line "editor-in-chief [journalname]".

Peer Review Process

When we receive a manuscript, an assessment will be made to ensure the manuscript meets the formal criteria specified in the Instructions for Authors and that it fits within the scope of the journal. When in doubt, the editor will consult with other members of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts are then assigned to an Associate Editor and sent to 2-4 external experts for peer-review. The Associate Editor makes editorial decisions on the peer-reviewed manuscript; the final decision on acceptance rests with the Editor-in-Chief. Authors are required to suggest at least 2 peer-reviewers (who do not have a conflict of interest) during the submission process. 

JMIR Publications follows a single-blind model during the review process. Reviewers are aware of the names of the authors to avoid any potential conflict of interest when accepting the review invitation. Reviewers for JMIR Publications journals will not remain anonymous. Their names will appear at the end of the published article. Authors and reviewers should not contact each other directly to discuss manuscripts or reviews.

Speed of Peer-Review

Internet-based research is a fast-moving field and JMIR Publications recognizes the need of our authors to communicate their findings rapidly. Our aim to facilitate a rapid, thorough, and rigorous peer-review process.

It is important to note that current turnaround times for reviewing and editing papers vary as these are primarily dependent on the quality of the paper upon first submission. With the exception of papers submitted under the fast-track process, in which we guarantee an editorial decision within 20 business days (4 weeks excluding weekends and public holidays) and publication of the article within 4 weeks after acceptance, JMIR Publications is not able to guarantee the speed of peer-review or publication. We aim for an average decision time of two months after submission for papers sent out for peer-review. There will however always be exceptions (papers that are more difficult to evaluate).

Author Self-Archiving

For all JMIR Publications journals, authors retain the copyright of their material and are allowed to self-archive their work as HTML or Word files in institutional repositories and on the web. Authors can republish the material, for example, as a book chapter. It is important to note that publication in another scholarly journal, while possible from a copyright point of view, is generally considered duplicate publication and scientific misconduct. In all cases of republication or self-archiving, the original source (citation) should be provided, including the link to the original JMIR Publications article on www.jmir.org, and a note should be included that the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0.

Online Submissions

If you already have a Username/Password for the JMIR Publications family of journals, you can proceed directly to Login.

If you require a Username/Password, please go to Registration.

Registration and login are required to submit papers online and to check the status of current submissions.

Once you are able to access the system, please be sure to consult the Instructions for Authors to ensure your paper meets the necessary criteria.

Privacy Statement

To read our updated Privacy Policy, please see https://jmir.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004220332.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines may be returned to authors.

1. The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration, or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor. Related/overlapping published or submitted work will be uploaded as supplementary files so reviewers and editors can determine the degree of overlap with previous/other papers under consideration. Salami slicing of research is discouraged.

2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word (.doc/.docx) file format.

3. The text meets this journal's formatting requirements, in particular, those summarized in the Instructions for Authors. The text employs italics, rather than underlining or bold as emphasis, with figures and tables (portrait only, no landscape format) placed within the text rather than at the end. Additional information has been put in separate files to be uploaded as Multimedia Appendices.

4. There are no URLs in the body of the manuscript. All URLs are cited as references.

5. I have read and understood the Privacy Policy. This policy outlines how your personal information is collected, shared, and used by JMIR Publications. 

6. I have read and understood the fee schedule. In particular, I understand and agree that unless my department/organization is an institutional member BEFORE submission (see drop-down list in step 1 of the submission process), I/my department will be billed for the article processing fee (APF) in case of acceptance. 

Please mention in your cover letter if you think the APF should be waived due to membership or for any other reasons. Journal sections marked with * may be eligible for a fee waiver or reduction under certain circumstances (must be justified in the comments field for the editor on submission). APFs may not apply for article categories marked with * (check instructions for authors). Note that the APF will also be billed if the author retracts the manuscript after acceptance, or if a case of scientific misconduct prevents us from publishing a manuscript after acceptance.

7. Please check this checkbox to indicate that you have read this checklist item, even if you do not wish to fast-track your manuscript. I understand that if I wish to fast-track the paper, I will pay the Fast-Track Fee (FTF) immediately after submission (a payment link will be provided after submission) or at a later stage. The FTF guarantees an editorial decision within 20 working days (see link for further instructions).

8. I understand that all author names and their affiliations for the final publication will be taken from the database (metadata form) and not from the submitted manuscript. Therefore, all author names must be entered in the metadata form during submission. Authors may remove author names from the manuscript if they prefer blind review. All coauthors have been/will be entered in the metadata form, and all coauthors fulfill the ICMJE criteria in that they (1) made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; (2) drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content; and (3) had granted final approval of the version to be published. Authors should meet conditions (1), (2), and (3).

9. P values are reported in accordance with our instructions for authors.

10. Authors agree that the manuscript and peer-review reports may be transferred to a JMIR sister/partner journal (e.g., i-JMR, JMIR Research Protocols, JMIR Formative Research, JMIR Human Factors, or others), if the paper is not found suitable for publication in the journal to which it was submitted but is suitable for another journal. The transfer of the peer-review reports may mean that the paper does not have to be re-reviewed. Authors will receive a notification when the manuscript is transferred and can decide if they want to pursue publication in a sister/partner journal and pay the associated APF. If authors do NOT wish an automatic transfer to an alternative journal after rejection for JMIR Nursing, this should be noted when submitting the paper. 

Editorial Board

Founding Editor and Publisher

Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI

Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada

View Gunther Eysenbach's profile

Dr. Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH FACMI is founder, executive editor and CEO of JMIR Publications, a digital health and open science publisher, founded more than 20 years ago. Gunther is also recognized by many as one of the leading academics in the field of digital health and eHealth, is a known open access and open science pioneer, and is producer, editor and publisher of influential knowledge translation products. According to Ioannidis et al (Plos Biol 2019) he is the most cited academic in medical informatics of all times and globally. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Health Information at the University of Victoria (Canada). He created a new scientific discipline in 2002 called "infodemiology" (https://www.jmir.org/2009/1/e11/), now recognized by WHO as a core area of practice when dealing with an "infodemic." He is CEO at JMIR Publications, a leading digital open-science publisher with more than 100 employees, and Growth500 company, which he founded in 1999. He also cofounded TrendMD, a Knowledge Translation tool (https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24330). He is also an angel investor in Digital Science and Digital Health startups.

Submissions are accepted via our web-based submission system

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is seeking a Co-Editor-in-Chief to work with Dr. Eysenbach and contribute to the journal's success and impact. Interested applicants can read more and apply here. 

Sabiha Gardezi, PhD, Managing Editor

Libby Beri, MIA, BA, Managing Editor

Editorial Board Members

Associate Editors

Alessandra Angelucci, PhD, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milan (Italy)

Alexandre Castonguay, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, Université de Montréal, Associate researcher for the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention and Management axis at the Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l'île-de-Montréal Research Center (Canada)

Christos D Argyropoulos, MSci Ch Eng, MSc, MSc, PhD, DIC, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Health Risk Assessment and Public Health at the School of Medicine, European University Cyprus (Cyprus)

Kelly Jean (KJ) Thomas Craig, PhD, Executive Director Clinical Evidence Development, CVS Health (USA)

Gianpiero Greco, PhD, Professor, Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari (Italy)

Songlin He, PhD, Doctor of Medicine, Department of Stomatology, Chongqing Medical University (China)

Yuxiang Hong, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Management, Hangzhou Dianzi University (China)

Qiao Jin, MD, Research Fellow, BioNLP group, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (USA)

Jiban Khuntia, PhD, Associate Professor of Information Systems; Director, Health Administration, Research Consortium, Business School, University of Colorado (USA)

Yike Li, MD, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA)

Yu-Hsuan Lin, MD, PhD, Associate Investigator and Attending Physician, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes (Taiwan)

Tobias Loetscher, PhD, Associate Professor, University of South Australia (Australia)

Xiaomeng (Simone) Ma, PhDc, MS, BS, Senior Real World Data Scientist at AstraZeneca (Canada)

Terika McCall, PhD, MPH, MBA, Assistant Professor, Division of Health Informatics, Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health; Director, Consumer Health Informatics Lab, Yale Center for Medical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University (USA)

Behrus Puladi, MD, DMD, Research Group Leader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery & Institute of Medical Informatics, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)

S. Raquel Ramos, PhD, MBA, MSN, FNP, FNYAM, Associate Professor, School of Nursing and School of Public Health, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Yale University (USA)

Emre Sezgin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Principal Investigator at The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio (USA)

Lianne Simonse MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor, Research Program Leader, Industrial Design Engineering, Product Innovation Management, Management & Organisation section, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands)

Guy Tsafnat, PhD, Chief Science Office, Evidentli Pty Ltd; Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University (Australia)

Karmen S. Williams, DPH, MBA, MA, Assistant Professor, Population Health Informatics Program, Health Policy and Management, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York (USA)

Rosa Wong, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Feng Xie, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Computational Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota (USA)

Zhijun Yin, MS, PhD, FAMIA, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (USA)

Zhaohui Su, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, Southeast University (China)

Yan Zhuang, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Department of BioHealth Informatics, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University (USA)

Advisors

Enrico Coiera, MB, BS, PhD, Professor, Director, Centre for Health Informatics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University (Australia)

John Powell, MA, MB, BChir, MSc, PhD, MRCPsych, MFPHM, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Section of Public Health and Epidemiology, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick (UK) 

Anne Moorhead, PhD, Lecturer in Health and Interpersonal Communication, University of Ulster (UK)

Staff Scientific Editors

Taiane de Azevedo Cardoso, PhD, MS

Naomi Cahill, PhD, MS

Andrew Coristine, PhD, MSc

Tiffany I. Leung, MD, MPH, FACP, FAMIA, FEFIM

Amaryllis Mavragani, MSc, BSc

Amy Schwartz, PhD, MSc

Past Editorial Board Members

Rita Kukafka, DrPH, MA, FACMI, JMIR Co-Editor-in-Chief, Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Sociomedical Sciences; Director, Laboratory for Precision Prevention, Columbia University (USA)

Corey Basch, Ed.D., M.P.H., CHES, Professor and Department Chair, Public Health, William Paterson University (USA)

Ciska Hoving, PhD, Assistant Professor, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University (Netherlands)

Thomas K. Houston, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine Scientist, Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education University of Alabama - Birmingham (USA)

Spyros Kitsiou, PhD, Assistant Professor, Director of the mHealth Innovation Lab, Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Tijn Kool, MD, PhD, Senior Researcher, Radboud University Medical Center (Netherlands)

Vasileios Lampos, PhD, Principal Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University College London (UK)

Lorainne Tudor Car, MD MSc PhD, Assistant Professor of Evidence Based Medicine, LKC School of Medicine, Imperial College London (UK) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Paul Wicks, PhD, Vice President of Innovation, PatientsLikeMe (USA)

Jeremy Wyatt, DM, FRCP, MB, BS, Leadership Chair in eHealth Research, University of Leeds (UK)

Bo Xie, PhD, Professor, School of Nursing and School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Peng Zhang, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University (USA)

Joshua Fogel, PhD, Professor, Department of Business Management, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (USA)

Josip Car, MD, PhD, DIC, FRCP Edin, FFPH, Director, Centre for Population Health Sciences, LKC School of Medicine, Imperial College London (UK) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Alison Calear, PhD, Associate Professor, Centre for Mental Health Research, Research School of Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

Theodore Cosco, PhD, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Computer Science University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)

Christiane Eichenberg, Prof Dr, Leader of the Institute for Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna (Austria)

Luis Fernandez Luque, PhD, eHealth Researcher, Qatar Computing Research Institute HBKU Qatar Foundation; Co-founder and Scientific Advisor, Salumedia (Qatar)

Chris Gibbons, PhD, NIHR Research Fellow at Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research; Director of Health Assessment and Innovation at The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge (UK)

Elizabeth Murnane, PhD, Assistant Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College (USA)

Join the Editorial Board

We are currently looking to expand our Editorial Board. To apply to be an Editorial Board Member/Associate Editor, please apply using the form linked in this article. You should hold a PhD (or similar higher degree), have a publication track record (h-index>8), and ideally have some academic editing experience. 

Editor-in-Chief

Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI, Founding Editor and Publisher; Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada