Maintenance Notice

Due to necessary scheduled maintenance, the JMIR Publications website will be unavailable from Wednesday, July 01, 2020 at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause you.

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Note added Feb 2017: As a result of defamation charges, Mr Beall has decided to withdraw and "unpublish" his entire blog. We remind readers that in one of his blogposts Beall characterizes the JMIR model "as a model for Open Access Publishers" pointing out that JMIR now publishes a range of sister journals (which contained some factual inaccuracies), but JMIR Publications was never on his (now "unpublished") blacklist of "predatory" publishers (archived here). Much of our previous remarks in response to his blog post are now summarized in our FAQ, see