International Journal of Medical Informatics

International Journal of Medical Informatics is published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electronic Health Records Systems, Mobile Health and mHealth Applications and Machine Learning in Healthcare, together about 37.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Official journal of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IMIA.The International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI) provides an international medium for the dissemination of original results and interpretative reviews in the field of medical informatics. As a leading international venue for health informatics research, IJMI has moved from concept to clinic, rigorously evaluated when deployed at scale in real-world settings. The journal serves a global audience with cross-national, comparative evidence on informatics performance across diverse regulatory, linguistic, cultural, and healthcare system contexts. The journal focuses on the design, development, integration, implementation, deployment, evaluation, and application of information and communication technologies (ICT) in healthcare. Submissions are expected to prioritize implementation fidelity, measurable clinical/population impact, equity, sustainability, and long-term governance over algorithmic novelty alone. IJMI seeks high-impact contributions in several priority areas, including AI implementation and governance, interoperability at scale, clinical implementation science, digital health equity, policy and workforce development, clinical decision support systems, health management information systems, interoperability across healthcare information systems and services, and human factors, safety, and experience. These priorities reflect the journal’s commitment to publishing rigorous and consequential informatics research that advances patient care, clinician well-being, health equity, and system performance worldwide.In scope:Health information systems, including national/international registries, hospital and clinical information systems, electronic medical/health records, consumer informatics, public/population health informatics, digital ecosystems, terminologies and standards, human-computer interaction, user adoption and acceptance, systems integration, and interoperability—in support of patient care delivery through ICT.Clinical decision support systems and AI, systems that employ heuristics, algorithms, data structures, statistical methods, decision theory, protocol-based reasoning, and artificial intelligence, including knowledge discovery techniques. Studies focusing solely on AI, ML, deep learning, or large language models will only be considered when integrated into clinical systems demonstrating impact by robust external validation and comprehensive clinical outcome evaluation.Education and workforce, ICT-based educational programs, digital literacy initiatives, and informatics training including organizational frameworks, curricula design, economic evaluations, social and clinical impact assessments, and ethical/cost-benefit analyses of healthcare applications.Evidence synthesis, literature reviews (systematic, scoping, integrative, critical, meta-analytic) that contribute to clinical informatics knowledge base through the evaluation of ICT applications (e.g., telehealth, AI, cybersecurity, electronic health/patient records) in clinical practice.Safety and policy, research addressing patient safety, data privacy, security, confidentiality, legal/regulatory frameworks, policy processes, system maturity models, and ICT governance in healthcare delivery.As an international journal in medical informatics, the publication prioritizes studies that apply rigorous methodologies enabling global researchers to replicate, validate, and build upon ICT applications in healthcare. Contributions from researchers worldwide are welcomed, especially those demonstrating the clinical significance and practical implementation of informatics solutions.Out of scope :Studies whose primary outcome is technical model performance (e.g., AUC, F1, precision/recall) without prospective clinical deployment, validated patient or provider outcomes, or a documented Clinical Translation Roadmap detailing a specific pathway to real-world application. Single-site stu

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Computer Science, Information Systems

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 19, Australia 8, Germany 7, Italy 4, United Kingdom 3 (57 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

4.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

8.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

8.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

1.28LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.64LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

93LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

175OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,120OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

6.27OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

4%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

47.63%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

337LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 3 monthsLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to first decision

1 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

50 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

98 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

3 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Elsevier Ireland Ltd

Country or region

IRELAND

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1997

ISSN

1386-5056

Electronic ISSN

1872-8243

Society / sponsor

European Federation for Medical Informatics

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website