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Journal of Medical Internet Research

The leading peer-reviewed journal for digital medicine and health and health care in the internet age. 

Editor-in-Chief:

Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI, Founding Editor and Publisher; Adjunct Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada

Rachele Hendricks-Sturrup, DHSc, MSc, MA, FACTS, Lead Editor; Research Director of Real-World Evidence, Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy, Washington, DC


Impact Factor 8.2 More information about Impact Factor CiteScore 10.4 More information about CiteScore

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is the pioneer open access eHealth journal, and is the flagship journal of JMIR Publications. The journal is ranked #1 on Google Scholar in the 'Medical Informatics' discipline. The journal focuses on emerging technologies, medical devices, apps, engineering, telehealth and informatics applications for patient education, prevention, population health and clinical care.

As an open access journal, we are read by clinicians, allied health professionals, informal caregivers, and patients alike, and have (as with all JMIR journals) a focus on readable and applied science reporting the design and evaluation of health innovations and emerging technologies. We publish original research, viewpoints, and reviews (both literature reviews and medical device/technology/app reviews). Peer-review reports are portable across JMIR journals and papers can be transferred, so authors save time by not having to resubmit a paper to a different journal but can simply transfer it between journals. 

We are also a leader in participatory and open science approaches, and offer the option to publish new submissions immediately as preprints, which receive DOIs for immediate citation (eg, in grant proposals), and for open peer-review purposes. We also invite patients to participate (eg, as peer-reviewers) and have patient representatives on editorial boards.

As all JMIR journals, the journal encourages Open Science principles and strongly encourages publication of a protocol before data collection. Authors who have published a protocol in JMIR Research Protocols get a discount of 20% on the Article Processing Fee when publishing a subsequent results paper in any JMIR journal.

JMIR is indexed in all major literature indices including National Library of Medicine(NLM)/MEDLINE, Sherpa/Romeo, PubMed, PMC, Scopus, Psycinfo, Clarivate (which includes Web of Science (WoS)/ESCI/SCIE), EBSCO/EBSCO Essentials, DOAJ, GoOA and others. 

The Journal of Medical Internet Research received a 2025 Impact Factor of 8.2, ranking Q1 in Medical Informatics (4/54) and Health Care Sciences & Services (8/194).

Journal of Medical Internet Research received a Scopus CiteScore of 10.4 (2025), placing it in the 87th percentile (130/1022) as a first quartile (Q1) journal in the field of Computer Science Applications, and in the 87th percentile (22/168) as a first quartile (Q1) journal in the field of Health Informatics.

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Recent Articles

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Artificial Intelligence

Voice disorders are common, yet access to timely specialist assessment is often limited. Automated analysis of short voice recordings may support early screening, but achieving robust performance on heterogeneous clinical datasets remains challenging.

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Digital Health Reviews

AI-based clinical decision support systems (AI-CDSSs) can help primary care clinicians provide higher quality care amid rising case complexity and resource constraints. However, evidence regarding their effectiveness and safety in primary care practice is lacking.

Nurse showing tablet with AI in healthcare icons: triage, risk prediction, patient outcomes.
Digital Health Reviews

Conventional triage relies on clinician judgment and limited information available at first contact. AI and machine learning (ML) may improve early risk stratification, whereas tele-triage and patient-facing tools primarily support remote assessment, access, and care routing.

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Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine

The rise of video-based social media platforms and the shift toward a video-first content strategy by social media companies have altered how people consume and engage with food-related content. However, little is known about how young adults experience, interpret, and are influenced by food-related videos on social media across different national and cultural contexts.

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Digital Health Strategic Planning

Video consultations have become an established component of general practice and are increasingly promoted to improve access, efficiency, and health care sustainability. While previous research has primarily explored the perspectives of individual patients and health care professionals, less is known about how organizations involved in strategic video consultation implementation consider their benefits, challenges, and future role within health care systems.

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Digital Health Reviews

Psychological distress and unmet psychosocial needs are common across the cancer continuum. Conversational AI agents may offer scalable support, but their technologies, support functions, evaluation approaches, and safety governance remain fragmented.

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Research Letter

Among community-dwelling older adults living alone, less frequent preintervention social contact was associated with greater reductions in loneliness during a social robot intervention. Future trials should examine whether preintervention social contact modifies the effects of social robot interventions.

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Participatory Medicine & E-Patients

People with intellectual disabilities experience a disproportionate burden of preventable health conditions, often linked to low levels of physical activity and poor dietary habits. Although digital health interventions hold considerable promise for addressing these challenges, many existing solutions remain difficult to use for this population due to limited accessibility. Co-design is increasingly advocated to develop digital health solutions that better align with users’ needs, yet there is limited empirical guidance for co-design processes with people with intellectual disabilities.

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Engagement with and Adherence to Digital Health Interventions, Law of Attrition

When chronic kidney disease progresses to end-stage kidney disease, many patients receive in-center hemodialysis. Although lifesaving, hemodialysis is associated with intradialytic hypotension. Peer mentoring and patient activation support in hemodialysis have not been well studied.

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