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
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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.

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]

In June 2023, JMIR Publications announced that 14 of their 34 journals had received Impact Factors, many ranked in the top quartile (Q1) of their respective disciplines.[7]


JMIR Publications also publishes the JMIRx series of "superjournals", described as a form of Overlay journal, which conduct peer-review on top of entire preprint servers and offers publication of the version-of-record.[8] JMIR Publications created superjournals for Preprint servers like MedRxiv (JMIRx Med[9]) and BioRxiv (JMIRx-Bio[10]). The novel format was announced by JMIR Publications publisher Gunther Eysenbach in 2019 in the 20th anniversary special issue of the publisher.[11] In the same issue, the journal also published a ground-breaking peer-reviewed preprint by Elon Musk and Neuralink about a brain-implantable neurochip (Neuralink), with solicited comments from experts, to demonstrate to concept of a superjournal.[12]

JMIRx Med (which sits on top of medrxiv), was created in 2020 and is described as the first medical overlay journal in the world, according to a review on overlay journals in 2022.[13] In 2022, JMIR Publications announced that JMIRx Med was accepted as the first overlay journal to be indexed in PubMed.

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. doi:10.17705/1CAIS.04109.
  6. ^ 2021 Journal Impact Factor. Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2022).
  7. ^ "Journal of Medical Internet Research - JMIR Publications more than doubles the number of journals with a Journal Impact Factor". www.jmir.org. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  8. ^ Eysenbach, Gunther (2019-12-23). "Celebrating 20 Years of Open Access and Innovation at JMIR Publications". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (12): e17578. doi:10.2196/17578. ISSN 1438-8871. PMC 6945123. PMID 31868653.
  9. ^ "JMIRxMed - JMIRx Med". xmed.jmir.org. 2023-12-12. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  10. ^ "JMIRxBio - JMIRx Bio". xbio.jmir.org. 2023-12-21. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
  11. ^ Eysenbach, Gunther (23 December 2019). "Celebrating 20 Years of Open Access and Innovation at JMIR Publications". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (12): e17578. doi:10.2196/17578. PMC 6945123. PMID 31868653.
  12. ^ Musk, Elon (31 October 2019). "An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (10): e16194. doi:10.2196/16194. PMC 6914248. PMID 31642810.
  13. ^ Rousi, Antti Mikael; Laakso, Mikael (2022-10-17). "Overlay journals: A study of the current landscape". Journal of Librarianship and Information Science: 096100062211252. arXiv:2204.03383. doi:10.1177/09610006221125208. ISSN 0961-0006. S2CID 248006464.

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