JMIR Research Protocols

JMIR Research Protocols is published by JMIR Publications and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Digital Mental Health Interventions and HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, together about 38.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

JMIR Research Protocols (JRP, ISSN 1929-0748) publishes peer-reviewed, openly accessible research ideas and grant proposals, study and trial protocols, reports of ongoing research, current methods and approaches (Preliminary results from pilot studies, early results, and formative research should now be published in JMIR Formative Research). While the original focus was on the design of medical and health-related research and technology innovations, JMIR Research Protocols publishes research protocols, proposals, and methods in all areas of medical and health research. JRP publishes protocols and grant proposals in all areas of medicine (and their peer-review reports, if available) including wet lab methods JRP is fully open access, with full-text articles deposited in PubMed Central JRP publishes research protocols, grant proposals, and early reports of ongoing and planned work that encourages collaboration and early feedback, and reduces duplication of effort JRP will be a valuable resource for researchers who want to learn about current research methodologies and how to write a winning grant proposal JRP creates an early scientific record for researchers who have developed novel methodologies, software, innovations or elaborate protocols JRP facilitates subsequent publication of results demonstrating that the methodology has already been reviewed, and reduces the effort of writing up the results, as the protocol can be easily referenced JRP demonstrates to reviewers of subsequent results papers that authors followed and adhered to carefully developed and described a priori methods In an effort to make research more reproducible and to avoid problems such as switched outcomes, many journals now require publication of research protocols (even for non-RCTs) Studies whose protocols or grant proposals have been accepted in JRP are "in principle accepted" for subsequent publication of results in other JMIR journals as long as authors adhere to their original protocol, regardless of study results (even if they are negative), reducing publication bias in medicine Published protocols will receive a Registered Report Identifier which will facilitate publication of the subsequent results paper; see What is a Registered Report? Authors publishing their protocols in JRP will receive a 20% discount on the article processing fee if they publish their results in another journal of the JMIR journal family (for example, JMIR for ehealth studies, i-JMR for others) For mor

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Multiple

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Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Canada 4, United States 3, United Kingdom 2, France 1, Italy 1 (12 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Database indexing

ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

2.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.53LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.62LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

67OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,727OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.57OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

99.72%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

894LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 24 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

JMIR Publications

Country or region

Canada

Language

English

ISSN

1929-0748

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Author guidelines ↗LetPub
• Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
• APC information ↗DOAJ
• Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
• Open access statement ↗DOAJ
• License & copyright ↗DOAJ
• Peer review process ↗LetPub
• Editorial board ↗LetPub