Journal of Medical Internet Research

Journal of Medical Internet Research is published by Journal of medical Internet Research and is in Zone 2 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Mobile Health and mHealth Applications, Digital Mental Health Interventions and Health Literacy and Information Accessibility, together about 39.7% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR; ISSN 1438-8871, Medline-abbreviation: J Med Internet Res) (founded in 1999) is a leading health informatics and health services/health policy journal (ranking in the first quartile Q1 by Impact Factor in these disciplines) focusing on digital health, data science, health informatics and emerging technologies for health, medicine, and biomedical research. The journal is ranked #1 on Google Scholar in the 'Medical Informatics' discipline. JMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Internet-related technologies; a broad field, which is known as "eHealth" [see also What is eHealth and What is eHealth (2)], or now also "digital health", which includes mHealth (mobile health). This field also has significant overlaps with what is called "consumer health informatics", health 2.0/medicine 2.0, or participatory medicine. This focus makes JMIR unique among other medical or medical informatics journals, which tend to focus on clinical informatics or clinical applications. As eHealth/mHealth is a highly interdisciplinary field we are not only inviting research papers from the medical sciences, but also from the computer, behavioral, social and communication sciences, psychology, library sciences, informatics, human-computer interaction studies, and related fields. The term "Internet" is used in its broadest sense, so we are also interested in high impact studies and applications of digital medicine, mobile technologies, social media, novel wearable devices and sensors, connected home appliances, domotics etc. The journal invites manuscripts that deal with the following topics (the main themes/topics covered by this journal and sample papers can also be found here): novel digital health approaches, methods, and devices large digital medicine / digital therapeutics trials with clinical impact data science, open data studies evaluating the impact of Internet/social media use or specific eHealth/mHealth interventions on individual health-related or social outcomes evaluations and implementations of innovative mhealth (mobile health) applications, social media apps, ubiquitous computing, or innovative and emerging technologies in health descriptions of the design and impact of Internet and mobile applications and websites or social media for

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): Health Care Sciences & Services

Editor-in-chief Proposals Theme IssuesPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 3 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United States 22, United Kingdom 6, Canada 6, Australia 6, Mainland China 3 (59 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-09-29

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Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

8.12LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

8.2Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

10.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

10.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

2.11LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.36LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

116LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

296OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

7,877OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

9OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

6.1%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

98.36%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

1,553LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

about 1 monthLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

25%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 21 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Journal of medical Internet Research

Country or region

CANADA

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

1999

ISSN

1438-8871

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
• Submission system ↗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