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, 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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Artificial Intelligence

Mesenteric malperfusion (MMP) is an uncommon but devastating complication of acute aortic dissection (AAD) that combines 2 life-threatening conditions—aortic dissection and acute mesenteric ischemia. The complex pathophysiology of MMP poses substantial diagnostic and management challenges. Currently, delayed diagnosis remains a critical contributor to poor outcomes because of the absence of reliable individualized risk assessment tools.

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Digital Health Reviews

The success of eHealth relies on interorganizational collaboration (IOC) throughout the development, evaluation, and implementation phases of eHealth deployment. This IOC is complex, as it involves a diversity of organizations from different sectors, such as technological, academic, health care, and governmental organizations, collaborating to deploy eHealth. Between these organizations, organizational boundaries, defined as the demarcation of an organization from its environment, arise. When these boundaries are perceived as aligned and enable complementarity, IOC is facilitated. By contrast, misalignment of organizational boundaries can hinder IOC. A dialogical learning mechanism, defined as a learning process that occurs when boundaries hinder IOC, can support learning how to navigate such boundaries. However, it is difficult to determine whether and when organizational boundaries facilitate or hinder IOC, and which dialogical learning mechanisms can be used to address these challenges during eHealth deployment. Previous literature presents the barriers and facilitators of IOC during eHealth deployment only for subsets of organizations or specific phases, leaving their generic versus phase specific applicability uncharted.

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Digital Health Reviews

The global push to scale up telemedicine services is challenged by complex, multilevel, multifaceted implementation and a lack of consensus on what the evidence-based essential building blocks of implementation are.

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Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making

Medical reports, particularly radiology findings, are often written for professional communication, making them difficult for patients to understand. This communication barrier can reduce patient engagement and lead to misinterpretation. Artificial intelligence (AI), especially large language models such as ChatGPT, offers new opportunities for simplifying medical documentation to improve patient comprehension.

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Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions

Social media offers promising, low-cost, and accessible ways to promote adolescent health within their daily routines. Platforms such as Instagram engage users through interactive features—including quizzes, question stickers, and polls—that encourage participation and behavior change. However, risks such as addiction potential and exposure to harmful content highlight the need for carefully designed interventions.

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Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities

Buprenorphine is a Food and Drug Administration–approved medication for opioid use disorder. However, individuals with opioid use disorder often report information needs regarding buprenorphine treatment on social media platforms such as Reddit. The field lacks a systematic approach to organizing these data and characterizing treatment information needs that may be unique and unavailable elsewhere.

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Digital Health Reviews

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into medical diagnostics has garnered substantial attention due to their potential to enhance diagnostic accuracy, streamline clinical workflows, and address health care disparities. However, the rapid evolution of LLM research necessitates a comprehensive synthesis of their applications, challenges, and future directions.

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e-Learning and Digital Medical Education

The online environment provides adolescents with vast amounts of health-related information; however, navigating this effectively requires high levels of eHealth literacy to avoid misinformation and harmful content. Parental guidance is often considered a crucial factor in shaping adolescents’ online health behaviors; however, there is limited longitudinal research examining how parental eHealth literacy mediation influences adolescents’ development of eHealth literacy over time.

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Viewpoints and Perspectives

Patient-generated health data (PGHD) encompass health-related information created, recorded, and gathered by patients in their daily lives, and is distinct from data collected in clinical settings. PGHD can offer insight into patients’ everyday health behaviors and conditions, supporting health management and clinical decision-making. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has developed a robust infrastructure to collect PGHD, including automatically collected data from digital sensors and patient-entered data. This effort is guided by comprehensive policy and strategy documents to ensure the secure storage and effective use of PGHD. This paper describes the development and implementation of an infrastructure to support PGHD within VHA and highlights envisioned clinical and research uses of PGHD to advance healthcare for U.S. Veterans. The PGHD database was built to Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standards, facilitating secure data storage and exchange of PGHD. Clinical tools, such as the provider-facing dashboards, make PGHD accessible from the electronic health record. Research and evaluation efforts focus on evaluating PGHD’s impact on patient engagement, clinical outcomes, and healthcare equity. VHA’s comprehensive PGHD infrastructure represents a significant advancement in personalized healthcare and patient engagement. Integration of PGHD into clinical practice can enhance shared decision-making and self-management, while research and evaluation efforts can address how to maximize the benefits of PGHD for Veterans. VHA’s approach sets a benchmark for other U.S. healthcare systems in leveraging PGHD to achieve the broad aims of enhancing stakeholder healthcare experiences, improving population health and health equity, and reducing costs.

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Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine

The proliferation of health-related content on social media platforms has changed the way people access and interpret information about cosmetic medicine. TikTok has become an important platform for sharing breast enhancement content, yet little is known about the quality, credibility, and impact of such information on user perceptions and decision-making.

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Short Paper

Gender disparities in academic medicine persist, particularly in male-dominated fields such as orthopedic surgery. Social media platforms are reshaping academic communication, although data describing gender differences in use and engagement are limited.

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Web-based and Mobile Health Interventions

Poor adherence to oral medications for type 2 diabetes can increase the risk of health complications. Digital interventions can affect people’s experiences of self-managing a chronic condition, and SMS text messages may provide an effective delivery method for an intervention. The Support Through Mobile Messaging and Digital Health Technology for Diabetes (SuMMiT-D) intervention uses evidence-based SMS text messages to support people with type 2 diabetes with regular and consistent use of diabetes medication.

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