About the Journal

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is a leading eHealth, health informatics, and health services journal. Launched in 1999, it was the first open-access journal covering health informatics topics and research. It is also the first international scientific, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of research on digitally enabled information and communication in health-relevant settings and sectors. The journal has a longstanding focus on high-quality digital health and eHealth research and implementation, internet-enabled innovation, data science, informatics, and emerging technologies for health, medicine, and biomedical research. 

The focus of the journal moving forward remains highly interdisciplinary, prioritizing work at the intersection of the Internet or digital enablement and health, in the broadest sense. Authors are responsible for explaining how their submitted work demonstrates or addresses real-world implications at this very intersection in a high-quality and timely manner. The journal especially invites work or research that addresses real-world implications and effects of digital and internet-based connectivity on decision-making; engagement; generalizable knowledge development; and information generation, sharing, and use. Topic areas in scope for this journal include, for example:

• Internet-connected or -enabled health technologies, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital health device interventions, ambient technologies, and digital therapeutics
• Connected health data and digital information synthesis, flow, and communication
• AI applications — including large language models, multimodal AI, and emerging AI — in internet-enabled health research
• Ethical, legal, and social as well as regulatory dimensions (or lack thereof) of digital or Internet connectivity in health
• Digital science and Internet-enabled research methods and data, including open-source tools (e.g., registries, repositories, protocols, etc.) and open data
• Digitally-enabled patient care and real-world outcomes research
• Emerging technologies using Internet or digital connectivity

Additional instructions for authors are here: https://jmir.org/author-information/instructions-for-authors

For more information about the peer-review process: https://jmir.org/author-information/peer-review-process

Authors are encouraged to directly submit their work for editorial consideration in case they would like to confirm alignment with the journal's scope. General inquiries may be directed to ed-support@jmir.org.

Representative Topics

The following provides illustrative examples of research that falls within the scope of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. This list is not exhaustive.

Internet-Enabled Health Interventions and Outcomes

• Internet- and mobile-delivered interventions for behavior change, disease prevention, or chronic disease self-management
• Telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and virtual care models
• Evaluation of AI-driven tools with demonstrated clinical impact in real-world care settings
• Engagement with and adherence to digital health programs over time

Connected Health Data, Information, and Communication

• Infodemiology and infoveillance: spread, quality, and public health impact of health information online
• Patient portals, personal health records, and consumer-facing health informatics applications
• Clinician-patient communication via digital and connected platforms
• Health information seeking, eHealth literacy, and information needs of patients, caregivers, and professionals

Ethical, Legal, and Social Dimensions of Digital Connectivity in Health

• Privacy, security, and data governance of internet-connected health technologies
• Data sovereignty, open data rights, and responsible data reuse in health research
• Health equity and the digital divide in access to and benefit from internet-enabled health tools
• eHealth policy, regulation, and health systems innovation

Novel Research Methods and Digital Science

• Research methods using internet-enabled technologies or data derived from them (e.g., ecological momentary assessment, real-time sensing, crowdsourcing)
• Evaluation frameworks and quality standards for internet-based health research
• Digital reporting standards and research transparency in eHealth

Artificial Intelligence in Internet-Mediated Health Research

• AI-driven digital health tools with real-world clinical impact
• Evaluations of AI-powered tools in real clinical or care settings (excluding standalone benchmarks)
• Conversational agents, chatbots, and voice assistants in patient- or clinician-facing health interactions
• Generative AI and LLMs in health information, clinical communication, or digital health workflows
• AI methods for internet-based health information analysis, misinformation detection, or infoveillance
• Automated monitoring, quality assessment, or synthesis of online health information

Participatory, Patient-Centered, and Population eHealth

• Patient engagement, participatory medicine, e-patients, and virtual health communities
• Internet-mediated implementation science: adoption, sustainability, and real-world scale-up of digital health tools
• Digital public health and population-level applications of internet-connected tools

Emerging and Foundational Internet-Enabled Technologies

• Generative AI, large language models, and conversational agents as applied to internet-connected health interactions
• Internet of Things, wearables, connected home devices, and ambient computing in health
• Digital health strategic planning and organizational transformation through internet-enabled systems
• Environmentally sustainable health care enabled by digital connectivity