Indexing & Abstracting

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is a truly interdisciplinary resource and therefore indexed or abstracted in a wide variety of bibliographic databases, reference sources, or alert services including

  • Medline (Index Medicus), U.S. National Library of Medicine. The leading bibliographic database of worldwide biomedical literature (see Editorial and linkout.gif PubMed).

  • Information Science Abstracts, Information Today Inc. Designed to promote the science, management and technology of information through the abstracting of pertinent books, journals, and conference proceedings. ISA has provided worldwide library science and information science records from more than 450 publications dating back to 1966. ( linkout.gif about ISA)

  • INSPEC, Institution of Electrical Engineers. The leading English-language bibliographic information service providing access to the world's scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology.
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  • Communication Abstracts is a bimonthly reference source produced at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., under the auspices of the School of Communications and Theater, and published by Sage Publications. It reaches a wide audience of educators, researchers, professionals and librarians in a variety of fields in the social sciences and humanities.

  • CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) is another leading biomedical database covering nursing, allied health, biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and health sciences librarianship. Originally a print index to the literature of nursing and eventually allied health information, the CINAHL-database has emerged as a comprehensive and versatile guide to an exploding body of knowledge ( linkout.gif about CINAHL). JMIR articles will also be available through the CINAHL Document Delivery Service.

  • 2/2003: The Informed Librarian Online is a monthly email newsletter, which helps librarians keep abreast of their professional reading
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  • 2/2004: LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists ( linkout.gif about LISA)

  • 5/2004: EMBASE, Elsevier. With more than 9 Million records, EMBASE is one of the most important biomedical bibliographic databases in the world ( linkout.gif about EMBASE)

  • 5/2004: Scopus, Elsevier. After 2 years of planning, development, and initial testing by a select group of about 20 university libraries, Elsevier has finally made an official announcement of the first fully functioning version of Scopus, its highly anticipated, full-text linking, abstracting-and-indexing database. The company is currently providing access to another 30 academic libraries for final testing and user trials, and expects to have the commercial release available by Q4 2004. Scopus is designed to be an all science, comprehensive access point for a library, with coverage of 13,000 titles from over 4,000 STM publishers, plus coverage of over 100 open access journals by the summer. Scopus also simultaneously searches the scientific Web using Elsevier's science-only Internet search engine, Scirus. Elsevier has announced that the Journal of Medical Internet Research will be one of the journals that will be covered in Scopus from the beginning. ( linkout.gif Scopus)

  •  Current Contents/Clinical Medicine (CC/CM)

  •  Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE),

  • 11/2004: Google Scholar. A new service from Google, indexes only scholarly journals ( linkout.gif Google Scholar)

  • 1/2005: PsycINFO, American Psychological Association (linkout.gif about PsycINFO)

  • 3/2005: LISTA (Library / Information Sciences & Technology Abstracts) (formerly ISTA), EBSCO Publishing Inc. LISTA indexes journal articles from more than 600 publications plus books, research reports, and conference proceedings. With coverage extending back to 1966, it is the oldest continuously produced database covering the field of information science. (linkout.gif about EBSCO)

  • 4/2005: JMIR content has been "donated" to the eGranay Digital Library (WiderNet project), which mirrors the entire JMIR website and makes it available offline to African universities for teaching purposes

  • 10/2006: Back-issues permanently archived in PubMed Central


The LOCKSS system (Stanford University Libraries) preserves the Journal of Medical Internet Research at worldwide research libraries. The LOCKSS system has permission to collect, preserve, and serve this Archival Unit. This guarantees availability of JMIR content at all times and for the future.


3/2005: We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Medical Internet Research is now also a member of the Publishers International Linking Association, Inc. (PILA), which operates CrossRef, a reference linking service, which offers the scientific and scholarly community a collaborative reference linking service, through which a researcher can click on a reference citation in a journal and immediately access the cited article.

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10/2008 JMIR is also proud to be one of the founding members of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (a professional organization of high-quality OA publishers) and is member of its executive board. 

Impact Factor

The journal impact factor is a tool for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals; it is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. The annual JCR (Journal Citation Reports) impact factor is a ratio between citations and recent citable items published. Thus, the impact factor of a journal is calculated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years (more about the linkout.gif impact factor).

The Journal of Medical Internet Research has an official ISI/JCR Impact Factor of 4.7 (2-yr) or 5.0 (5-yr) (as of June 2011 - see here for details on the Impact Factor).


Authors considering to submit their work to JMIR should keep in mind that the "open access advantage" goes well beyond citations and uptake within the scientific community (as measured by citations) - it also facilitates dissemination and knowledge translation to a wider audience (including knowledge endusers such as policy makers or consumers) - in other words, the open access advantage goes well beyond citations and impact factor, as measured by ISI/SCI. (see also Eysenbach G. The Open Access Advantage, http://www.jmir.org/2006/2/e8/). For many authors, this is the primary reason for why they submit their best papers to JMIR.

In fact, more important for evaluation of an individual author or paper should be the article-level impact metrics, e.g. the absolute number of citations a particular paper receives in the years after publication. 

Traffic, Reach, and Visibility

Another measurement of impact for electronic journals are traffic and reach rankings.

With more than 50.000 subscribers to our TOC alerts (as of 2011), each article usually gets thousends of readers within the first days of publication.