JMIR - the leading OPEN ACCESS* peer-reviewed transdisciplinary journal on health and health care in the Internet age.
The new JMIR Impact Factor released in June 2009 is now 3.6 (up from last years' 3.0)! JMIR is now the top ranked, most influential, #1 cited journal in the health informatics category (out of 20 journals), and the #2 journal in the health sciences category (out of 62 leading journals). Thank you to all authors and editors for making us the leading journal in our field, and the only independent Open Access journal achieving the top spot in its discipline!
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JMIR is a pioneer of open science and a founding member and current board member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
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JMIR is in full compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy - NIH funded investigators save time by submitting their work to JMIR.
And open access helps dissemination within and beyond the scientific community [1, 2, 3] !
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Recent Articles
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Effects of Internet Use on Health and Depression: A Longitudinal Study by Katie Bessière, Sarah Pressman, Sara Kiesler, Robert Kraut (Published on 12 Mar 2010) Background: The rapid expansion of the Internet has increased the ease with which the public can obtain medical information. Most research on the utility of the Internet for health purposes has evaluated the quality of the information itself or examined its impact on clinical populations. Little is known about the consequences of its use by the general population. Objective: Is use of the Internet by the general population for health purposes associated with a subsequent change in psychological well-being and health? Is the effect different for healthy versus ill individuals? Does the impact of using the Internet for health purposes differ from the impact of other types of Internet use? Methods: Data come from a national US panel survey of 740 individuals conducted from 2000 to 2002.... |
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How Breast Cancer Patients Want to Search for and Retrieve Information From Stories of Other Patients on the Internet: an Online Randomized Controlled Experiment by Regina Overberg, Wilma Otten, Andries de Man, Pieter Toussaint, Judith Westenbrink, Bertie Zwetsloot-Schonk (Published on 09 Mar 2010) Background: Other patients’ stories on the Internet can give patients information, support, reassurance, and practical advice. Objective: We examined which search facility for online stories resulted in patients’ satisfaction and search success. Methods: This study was a randomized controlled experiment with a 2x2 factorial design conducted online. We facilitated access to 170 stories of breast cancer patients in four ways based on two factors: (1) no versus yes search by story topic, and (2) no versus yes search by writer profile. Dutch speaking women with breast cancer were recruited. Women who gave informed consent were randomly assigned to one of four groups. After searching for stories, women were offered a questionnaire relating to satisfaction with the search facility, the... |
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