Editorial Board
Founding Editor and Publisher
Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI
Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada
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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.
Editorial Board Members
Associate Editors
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)
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
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, Post-doctoral Scholar, Stanford University (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)
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.
Guest Editors & Theme Issue Proposals
JMIR Publications welcomes guest editors to assemble a theme issue on a special subtopic. For more information, please visit How to guest edit a theme issue and How to suggest a theme issue.
This may be particularly interesting for workshop and conference organizers putting together a grant-funded event (eg, with invited experts) on a topic in scope for the journal. JMIR Publications can then be used as a dissemination vehicle. (Funding through grants or other sources is usually required and should be budgeted for in grant proposals. Letters of support are available from the JMIR Publications editor, if needed. Note that granting agencies such as NLM or CIHR usually want to see some sort of knowledge translation activities in workshop proposals, and have in the past funded the JMIR Publications APFs.)
The task of the guest editor(s) is generally
- to solicit manuscripts from colleagues concerning the selected topic,
- to select peer-reviewers for incoming manuscripts,
- to make decisions (together with the editorial board) on article revisions and acceptance, and
- to write an editorial for the theme issue
- to secure funding to sponsor the APFs for published papers (usually in the $10-20k range).
Alternatively, the conference abstracts may be published in a supplement, with or without selected full papers published later in a theme issue or in regular JMIR Publications issues. See We are organizing a conference - can we publish our proceedings / abstracts in iproceedings? regarding publishing conference abstracts.