2025 CiteScore Rankings Confirm JMIR Publications’ Impact
(Toronto, June 9, 2026) Scopus has officially released its 2025 CiteScore rankings, highlighting impressive growth and citation impact across 28 JMIR Publications journals. Among the rated titles, 14 ranked in the top quartile of their subject categories, 8 secured a percentile rank of 90% or higher, and 2 received a CiteScore for the first time.
Scopus CiteScore measures citation impact over a rolling 4-year window (2022-2025), reflecting the breadth and depth of peer-reviewed research across our portfolio. As a publisher focused on digital health and open science, JMIR Publications shares these results with transparency, including an account of what these metrics can and cannot tell us about journal quality.
- First-quartile (Q1) performance: 14 journals ranked within the first quartile in their respective subject categories, including 8 with a percentile rank of 90% or higher.
- First-time CiteScores: 2 journals received their inaugural CiteScore, a milestone for their editorial teams: JMIR Neurotechnology and JMIR XR and Spatial Computing.
- Year-over-year growth: 18 journals recorded an increase in CiteScore compared to the prior year, with 6 journals improving their quartile ranking.
- Notable movers: Multiple titles experienced notable quartile shifts and percentile leaps:
- JMIR Nursing earned a ranking in the 90th percentile, maintaining its Q1 position.
- JMIR Perioperative Medicine transitioned to a Q1 position, placing at the 86th percentile in the Health Professions subject category.
- JMIR Aging secured a Q1 position across three major categories. Specifically, the journal is ranked in the 90th percentile for Health (Social Science), the 86th percentile for Gerontology (Nursing), and the 76th percentile for Geriatrics and Gerontology (Medicine).
- JMIR AI transitioned to a Q1 position, placing it in the 92nd percentile in the Reviews and References category (Medicine). It also earned a Q1 position in the Health Policy (Medicine) category for the first time this year.
“These rankings reflect the work of hundreds of editors, thousands of researchers and reviewers, and numerous committed journal staff who are advancing open access digital health science,” said Tiffany I Leung, MPH, MD, FAMIA, scientific editorial director of JMIR Publications. “While citation metrics represent just one perspective for evaluating research, these findings—paired with the high quality and integrity of our published work—demonstrate that the mission of JMIR Publications resonates. Open access research in digital health has a meaningful and lasting place in open science.”
Portfolio CiteScore Results
The 2025 CiteScore results for JMIR Publications journals are listed below.
Responsible Use of Citation Metrics
JMIR Publications shares these results in the spirit of transparency while reaffirming its commitment to responsible research assessment. Journal-level citation metrics are aggregate indicators of a journal’s citation record within a defined time window and database—they are not measures of the quality of individual articles or the contributions of individual researchers. As a signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), JMIR Publications supports the call to end the use of journal-based metrics as a surrogate measure for individual article quality in assessment, hiring, and promotion decisions, aiming instead to improve how research output is evaluated. Ultimately, citation-based metrics like CiteScore and Journal Impact Factor are best understood as a single contextual reference point, not a definitive measure of worth.
About JMIR Publications
JMIR Publications is a leading open access publisher of digital health research and a champion of open science. With a focus on author advocacy and research amplification, JMIR Publications partners with researchers to advance their careers and maximize the impact of their work. As a technology organization with publishing at its core, we provide innovative tools and resources that go beyond traditional publishing, supporting researchers at every step of the dissemination process. Our portfolio features a range of peer-reviewed journals, including the renowned Journal of Medical Internet Research.
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