Announcements

 

NIH funded authors: Save time by publishing in JMIR

  
Since April 2008, legislation in the US requires NIH-funded authors to deposit their manuscripts in PubMed Central (PMC), unless they publish in one of the journals which are already depositing published articles in PMC - JMIR is only one of 2 Impact Factor-ranked journals in the health informatics / ehealth field where NIH authors can publish without going through the deposit process. More...
 

Job Posting: Associate (Section) Editors for JMIR

  
JMIR is broadening its editorial board and is looking for outstanding scientists in the area of health informatics (or related fields) with a senior appointment at a research institution and with a publication record (in JMIR and/or other leading biomedical journals). The role of section editors (associate editors) is to guide papers through the peer-review process. More...
 

Job Posting: Technical Analyst / Web Developer (PHP/LAMP) as JMIR Technical Lead (Toronto, Canada)

  
POSITION: Technical Analyst - OJS/Web-developer EMPLOYER: University Health Network (http://www.uhn.ca/) - Centre for Global eHealth Innovation (http://www.ehealthinnovation.org), Toronto General Hospital - Eysenbach Research Group, Toronto Click "more" for the complete job posting. More...
 

Job Posting: XML Production Typesetter (Freelancer)

  
We are looking for one or more freelancers who will assist in preparing XML-tagged documents (NLM-DTD). If you have experience with preparing XML-tagged manuscripts, ideally using the PubMed Central's NLM-DTD (Blue Library), we want to hear from you. Experience with PHP is a further asset. More...
 

Job Posting: Copyeditors (Freelancer or Part-time position in Toronto, Canada)

  
JMIR is broadening its network of freelancing copyeditors. If you are a copyeditor (native English speakers only) with proven experience in editing scholarly manuscripts and particularly the AMA styleguide, and if you have a basic understanding in how statistics should be reported, then please read on and drop an email to us. More...
 

ISI/SCI Impact Factors 2007: JMIR remains on top

  

Open Access Journal Remains on Top of Its Discipline - Second Year in a Row - Impact Factor (3.0) now almost equal with JAMIA (3.1)

On June 20th, 2008, ISI/SCI released their 2007 Journal Impact Factors. With an outstanding impact factor of 3.0 JMIR has again held its position as a close second (out of 20 journals) in the medical informatics category, almost equal with the leading journal in that category, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association JAMIA (3.1). JMIR also continues to be ranked #6 in the health care sciences & services category (out of 57 leading journals), tied with the reputable journal Health Affairs.

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Idea for a CIHR grant proposal: A JMIR theme issue

  
The Canadian Institutes of Health has just announced a new type of grant mechanism called a End of Grant Knowledge Translation Supplement, worth up to CDN $25,000 per grant. Among the dissemination activities eligible for funding under this program is "Dissemination of research results through specialized publications", which includes for example a JMIR article, a series of JMIR articles, or even a JMIR theme issue. More...
 

Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0

  
Submissions for the JMIR Medicine 2.0 Theme Issue is closed -thanks for your submissions, we got over 20 great papers! You may still submit an abstract or panel proposal to the Medicine 2.0 Conference, and we may invite some conference contributors to submit a full paper to the Theme Issue.

Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0 - How social networking and Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize health care, wellness, clinical medicine and biomedical research
In the past few years we have seen the rapid evolution of new tools and programming techniques collectively called “Web 2.0 tools”, which facilitate the development of collaborative and user-friendly Web applications.
To celebrate the first international "Medicine 2.0" conference on Sept 4./5th 2008 in Toronto, JMIR will publish a “Medicine 2.0” Theme Issue focusing on Web 2.0 Applications for Health. We will publish peer-reviewed research articles, reviews, and opinion articles (new submission deadline for full articles: March 3rd, 2008).
JMIR is specifically seeking contributions, including original papers, editorials, viewpoint articles, case studies, and review articles, on topics related to Web 2.0 as it intersects with health and health care.

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Cancer survivor makes donation to JMIR

  
(Toronto, 7 Nov 2007) We were recently touched by a donation to JMIR made by a patient with CLL. The donor (who prefers to remain anonymous) values the information we publish, particularly cancer related research. We find it remarkable that our journal is read and valued not only by researchers, but also by "endusers", including patients. Another testimony of the power of open access publishing. More...
 

JMIR receives funding from Research Council

  
(Toronto, 7. Nov 2007). JMIR is proud to announce that it has received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under their Aid to Open Access Journals grants program. JMIR is one of 11 journals supported under this new program. The adjudication committee consisting of scholars with expertise in open access publishing acknowledged the outstanding quality of JMIR: "The committee considered the journal to be of very high quality. It found the editorial board excellent and the peer review process sound. The committee commends the journal for becoming actively involved in the development and/or customization of open access tools." More...
 

2006 ISI/SCI Impact Factors confirm JMIR as a top health informatics & health sciences research journal

  
[This post is outdated. For Impact Factors released in 2008 see here]
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We are happy and proud to report that on June 20th, 2007, ISI/SCI released their 2006 Journal Citation Reports, reporting journal impact factors for the worlds' most important scholarly journals. For the first time, the J Med Internet Res (JMIR) was "officially" included - and ended up with a considerable impact factor of 2.9, placing the journal on #2 in the medical informatics category (out of 20 medical informatics journals), and #6 in the very broad "Health Care Sciences & Services" journal category, which includes 56 other leading journals ! [Click "more" for full details]		 More...
 

Institutional Members: Editing IP addresses

  
For institutional members it is now no longer possible to edit their IP addresses themselves. New institutional members should provide their IP range in their initial membership request.  More...
 

Authors: How to pay the JSF/FTF/APF

  
A number of changes have been made regarding how to pay the JSF (JMIR submission fee), APF (article processing fee), and FTF (fast-track fee). Click on "more" for details.
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IMPORTANT notice for authors who are currently revising their manuscripts

  
Note that we have upgraded our manuscript management system. In contrast to the old system, responses to the reviewers' and editorial comments are now to be pasted into  a notification email to the editor (click "Notify Editor" after logging in and clicking on "Roles: Author" and the manuscript title).
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