Journal of Medical Internet Research

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal established in 1999 covering eHealth and "healthcare in the Internet age". The editors-in-chief are Gunther Eysenbach and Rita Kukafka. The publisher is JMIR Publications.

Journal of Medical Internet Research
DisciplineMedicine, eHealth
LanguageEnglish
Edited byGunther Eysenbach, Rita Kukafka
Publication details
History1999–present
Publisher
JMIR Publications
FrequencyUpon acceptance (issues aggregated monthly)
Yes
LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 2.0
7.08 (2021)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4J. Med. Internet Res.
Indexing
ISSN1438-8871
LCCN00252482
OCLC no.42705591
Links

Publisher

The journal is published by JMIR Publications, which was a cofounder of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association and is known for other journal titles as well, which mostly focus on specific subtopics within eHealth, such as mHealth (JMIR mHealth and uHealth), serious games (JMIR Serious Games), mental health (JMIR Mental Health), and cancer (JMIR Cancer). JMIR Publications is also notable for being one of the fastest-growing companies in Canada in 2019 .[1]

Controversy

JMIR Publications has faced criticism for initially using the same editorial board of its main journal for its sister journals and for offering a fast-track review pathway for a surcharge.[2] Editor-in-chief Gunther Eysenbach commented that the spin-off journals would eventually have their own boards and that the fast-track option does not affect the quality or integrity of its peer-review processes.[3][4] As of the end of 2016, all journals had their own editorial boards.

Impact

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 7.08. According to a survey among 398 health informatics experts in 2015, the journal was ranked as a top tier journal in the field of health informatics.[5]

Other journals from the publisher

Among the 32 JMIR Publications journals, 5 journals, in addition to J Med Internet Res, have been ranked in the Journal Citation Reports.

These include:[6]

  • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (2021 impact factor of 14.56)
  • JMIR Mental Health (2021 impact factor of 6.33)
  • JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2021 impact factor of 4.95)
  • JMIR Serious Games (2021 impact factor of 3.36)
  • JMIR Medical Informatics (2021 impact factor of 3.23)

References
  1. "JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List". JMIR Publications. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  2. Beall, Jeffrey. "JMIR Publications: A Model for Open-Access Health Sciences Publishers (withdrawn/unpublished)". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on 2015-12-25. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  3. Eysenbach, Gunther. "Response by JMIR Publications to Jeffrey Beall's Blog Post". Retrieved 2015-12-23.
  4. Eysenbach, Gunther. "Gunther Eysenbach's random research rants: JMIR's Fast-Track Experiment (Innovations in Scholarly Publishing: Part 1)". Gunther Eysenbach.
  5. Serenko, Alexander; Dohan, Michael S; Tan, Joseph (2017). "Global Ranking of Management- and Clinical-centered eHealth Journals" (PDF). Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 41: 198–215.
  6. 2021 Journal Impact Factor. Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2022).
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