Journal of Medical Internet Research

The leading peer-reviewed journal for digital medicine and health and health care in the internet age. 

Editor-in-Chief:

Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI, Founding Editor and Publisher; Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada


Impact Factor 5.8 CiteScore 11.7

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is the pioneer open access eHealth journal, and is the flagship journal of JMIR Publications. It is a leading health services and digital health journal globally in terms of quality/visibility (Journal Impact Factor™ 5.8 (Clarivate, 2024)), ranking Q1 in both the 'Medical Informatics' and 'Health Care Sciences & Services' categories, and is also the largest journal in the field. The journal is ranked #1 on Google Scholar in the 'Medical Informatics' discipline. The journal focuses on emerging technologies, medical devices, apps, engineering, telehealth and informatics applications for patient education, prevention, population health and clinical care.

JMIR is indexed in all major literature indices including National Library of Medicine(NLM)/MEDLINE, Sherpa/Romeo, PubMed, PMCScopus, Psycinfo, Clarivate (which includes Web of Science (WoS)/ESCI/SCIE), EBSCO/EBSCO Essentials, DOAJ, GoOA and others. Journal of Medical Internet Research received a Scopus CiteScore of 11.7 (2024), placing it in the 92nd percentile (#12 of 153) as a Q1 journal in the field of Health Informatics. It is a selective journal complemented by almost 30 specialty JMIR sister journals, which have a broader scope, and which together receive over 10,000 submissions a year. 

As an open access journal, we are read by clinicians, allied health professionals, informal caregivers, and patients alike, and have (as with all JMIR journals) a focus on readable and applied science reporting the design and evaluation of health innovations and emerging technologies. We publish original research, viewpoints, and reviews (both literature reviews and medical device/technology/app reviews). Peer-review reports are portable across JMIR journals and papers can be transferred, so authors save time by not having to resubmit a paper to a different journal but can simply transfer it between journals. 

We are also a leader in participatory and open science approaches, and offer the option to publish new submissions immediately as preprints, which receive DOIs for immediate citation (eg, in grant proposals), and for open peer-review purposes. We also invite patients to participate (eg, as peer-reviewers) and have patient representatives on editorial boards.

As all JMIR journals, the journal encourages Open Science principles and strongly encourages publication of a protocol before data collection. Authors who have published a protocol in JMIR Research Protocols get a discount of 20% on the Article Processing Fee when publishing a subsequent results paper in any JMIR journal.

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Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions

A patient–family caregiver dyad approach is necessary to improve adherence to self-care behaviors by patients with heart failure (HF). However, there is a lack of mobile health (mHealth) interventions that engage both patients and their family caregivers to promote HF self-care.

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Digital Health Reviews

In the context of escalating global mental health challenges, adolescent suicide has become a critical public health concern. In current clinical practices, considerable challenges are encountered in the early identification of suicide risk, as traditional assessment tools demonstrate limited predictive accuracy. Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) present promising solutions for risk prediction. However, comprehensive evaluations of their efficacy in adolescent populations remain insufficient.

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Theme Issue 2024: The Emergence of Medical Futures Studies

The design and integration of technology within inpatient hospital rooms has a critical role in supporting nursing workflows, enhancing provider experience, and improving patient care. As health care technology evolves, there is a need to design “future-proofed” physical environments that integrate technology in ways that support workflows and maintain clinical performance. Assessing how current technologies affect nursing workflows can help inform the development of these future environments.

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Theme Issue 2024: 25 Years of Digital Health Excellence

Fueled by innovations in technology and health interventions to promote, restore, and maintain health and safeguard well-being, the field of eHealth has yielded significant scholarly output over the past 25 years.

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Innovations in Clinical Trials and Research Data Management

Industry stakeholders, academic experts, and regulatory bodies emphasize the importance of prioritizing a patient-centered experience in clinical trials to enhance retention, adherence, and trial participation. Concurrently, there has been a notable rise in the adoption of technology-mediated decentralized methodologies for conducting clinical trials. Nonetheless, is a truly patient-centric approach being achieved? The shift to decentralized approaches risks prioritizing operational efficiency and remote data collection over the nuanced and diverse needs of participants. This raises critical questions about whether the current implementation of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs) fully aligns with the principles of patient centeredness.

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Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions

Teaching is often characterized as a stressful profession, with a substantial proportion of teachers experiencing chronic stress and burnout. Research indicates that teachers often experience stress upon entering the workforce, leading to detrimental effects on their health, occupational well-being, and work performance and adversely impacting student outcomes. While meta-analyses have demonstrated the efficacy of internet-based stress management interventions (iSMIs) for both experienced professionals and university students, there remains a gap in research on the efficacy of iSMIs tailored to teachers and career starters.

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Research Instruments, Questionnaires, and Tools

While the volume of virtual visits increased with the COVID-19 pandemic, little is still known regarding the quality of virtual visits. Furthermore, there is limited guidance on how best to evaluate the quality of virtual care initiatives.

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Telehealth and Telemonitoring

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic led US health systems to rapidly implement telehealth services to connect patients and clinicians. This rapid expansion of telehealth allowed us to explore how a telehealth experience may be best delivered across populations and contexts.

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Infodemiology and Infoveillance

Infertility is defined as the inability to achieve a live birth after one year of regular sexual intercourse, affecting 1 in 6 couples in France. The use of ART for infertility issues has been steadily increasing in recent years, with in vitro fertilization being the most common type of ART. Infertility is frequently regarded as a significant life crisis for many individuals, potentially leading to depression, anxiety, social isolation, and sexual dysfunction. Couples experiencing infertility demonstrate a high prevalence of negative emotional responses and decreased life satisfaction as a result of infertility and its treatments. Social media have become key tools for finding and disseminating medical information.

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Digital Mental Health Interventions, e-Mental Health and Cyberpsychology

The exponential growth of digital technologies and the ubiquity of social media platforms have led to unprecedented mental health challenges among college students, highlighting the critical need for effective intervention approaches.

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Public (e)Health, Digital Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics

Previous studies have revealed that deviant peer affiliation (DPA) and Internet gaming disorder (IGD) are highly related and often co-occur. Nevertheless, the dynamic interactions among these symptoms, their bidirectional effects, and the underlying mechanisms contributing to their persistence remain poorly understood. Most existing research relies on cross-sectional designs or examines aggregated scores, limiting the ability to detect time-dependent symptom interactions. In particular, prior studies overlook the complex bidirectional relationships between specific IGD and DPA symptoms over time. As adolescence is a developmental period marked by rapid changes in peer relationships and behavioral regulation, distinguishing temporal associations between specific DPA and IGD symptoms at both the within- and between-person levels is important for clarifying mechanisms of their co-occurrence and informing personalized intervention strategies.

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Artificial Intelligence

Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) has emerged as the first-line noninvasive imaging test for patients at high risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). When combined with machine learning (ML), it provides more valid evidence in diagnosing major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs). Radiomics provides informative multidimensional features that can help identify high-risk populations and can improve the diagnostic performance of CCTA. However, its role in predicting MACEs remains highly debated.

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