JMIR - the leading OPEN ACCESS* peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal on health and health care in the Internet age.
The new JMIR Impact Factor for 2009 (released in June 2010 by Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports) has further increased to 3.9 (2009). JMIR remains among the top ranked journals in the health informatics category, and remains the #2 journal in the health sciences & health services research category (and it is the #1 journal if review journals are excluded). Thank you to all authors, reviewers and editors for making us the leading journal in our field !
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Recent Theme Issues: Theme Issue on Web-Assisted Tobacco Interventions (Iss. 5/2008), Theme Issue on Medicine 2.0 (Iss. 3/2008) - Web 2.0 Applications for Health ( in collaboration with the Medicine 2.0 conference (guest editors and sponsors wanted for future Theme Issues!). Forthcoming (4/2010): Theme Issue on e-mental health.
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Even in the event that you as a principal investigator/author are not affected by open access mandates, consider that open access helps dissemination within and beyond the scientific community [1, 2, 3] !
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Recent Articles
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Exploring Virtual Worlds for Scenario-Based Repeated Team Training of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Medical Students by Johan Creutzfeldt, Leif Hedman, Christopher Medin, Wm LeRoy Heinrichs, Li Felländer-Tsai (Published on 03 Sep 2010) Background: Contemporary learning technologies, such as massively multiplayer virtual worlds (MMVW), create new means for teaching and training. However, knowledge about the effectiveness of such training is incomplete, and there are no data regarding how students experience it. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a field within medicine in high demand for new and effective training modalities. Objective: In addition to finding a feasible way to implement CPR training, our aim was to investigate how a serious game setting in a virtual world using avatars would influence medical students’ subjective experiences as well as their retention of knowledge. Methods: An MMVW was refined and used in a study to train 12 medical students in CPR in 3-person teams in a repeated fashion 6... |
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Investigating Predictors of Visiting, Using, and Revisiting an Online Health-Communication Program: A Longitudinal Study by Jonathan Van 't Riet, Rik Crutzen, Hein De Vries (Published on 02 Sep 2010) Background: Online health communication has the potential to reach large audiences, with the additional advantages that it can be operational at all times and that the costs per visitor are low. Furthermore, research shows that Internet-delivered interventions can be effective in changing health behaviors. However, exposure to Internet-delivered health-communication programs is generally low. Research investigating predictors of exposure is needed to be able to effectively disseminate online interventions. Objective: In the present study, the authors used a longitudinal design with the aim of identifying demographic, psychological, and behavioral predictors of visiting, using, and revisiting an online program promoting physical activity in the general population. Methods: A webpage was... |