The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is a leading eHealth, health informatics, and health services journal. Launched in 1999, it was the first open-access journal covering health informatics topics and research. It is also the first international scientific, peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of research on digitally enabled information and communication in health-relevant settings and sectors. The journal has a longstanding focus on high-quality digital health and eHealth research and implementation, internet-enabled innovation, data science, informatics, and emerging technologies for health, medicine, and biomedical research.

The focus of the journal moving forward remains highly interdisciplinary, prioritizing work at the intersection of the Internet or digital enablement and health, in the broadest sense. Authors are responsible for explaining how their submitted work demonstrates or addresses real-world implications at this very intersection in a high-quality and timely manner. The journal especially invites work or research that addresses real-world implications and effects of digital and internet-based connectivity on decision-making; engagement; generalizable knowledge development; and information generation, sharing, and use. Topic areas in scope for this journal include, for example:

Internet-connected or -enabled health technologies, such as telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital health device interventions, ambient technologies, and digital therapeutics
Connected health data and digital information synthesis, flow, and communication
AI applications — including large language models, multimodal AI, and emerging AI — in internet-enabled health research
Ethical, legal, and social as well as regulatory dimensions (or lack thereof) of digital or Internet connectivity in health
Digital science and Internet-enabled research methods and data, including open-source tools (e.g., registries, repositories, protocols, etc.) and open data
Digitally-enabled patient care and real-world outcomes research
Emerging technologies using Internet or digital connectivity

Additional instructions for authors are here: https://jmir.org/author-information/instructions-for-authors

For more information about the peer-review process: https://jmir.org/author-information/peer-review-process

Authors are encouraged to directly submit their work for editorial consideration in case they would like to confirm alignment with the journal's scope. General inquiries may be directed to ed-support@jmir.org.

Representative Topics

The following provides illustrative examples of research that falls within the scope of the Journal of Medical Internet Research. This list is not exhaustive.

Internet-Enabled Health Interventions and Outcomes

Internet- and mobile-delivered interventions for behavior change, disease prevention, or chronic disease self-management
Telehealth, remote patient monitoring, and virtual care models
Evaluation of AI-driven tools with demonstrated clinical impact in real-world care settings
Engagement with and adherence to digital health programs over time

Connected Health Data, Information, and Communication

Infodemiology and infoveillance: spread, quality, and public health impact of health information online
Patient portals, personal health records, and consumer-facing health informatics applications
Clinician-patient communication via digital and connected platforms
Health information seeking, eHealth literacy, and information needs of patients, caregivers, and professionals

Ethical, Legal, and Social Dimensions of Digital Connectivity in Health

Privacy, security, and data governance of internet-connected health technologies
Data sovereignty, open data rights, and responsible data reuse in health research
Health equity and the digital divide in access to and benefit from internet-enabled health tools
eHealth policy, regulation, and health systems innovation

Novel Research Methods and Digital Science

Research methods using internet-enabled technologies or data derived from them (e.g., ecological momentary assessment, real-time sensing, crowdsourcing)
Evaluation frameworks and quality standards for internet-based health research
Digital reporting standards and research transparency in eHealth

Artificial Intelligence in Internet-Mediated Health Research

AI-driven digital health tools with real-world clinical impact
Evaluations of AI-powered tools in real clinical or care settings (excluding standalone benchmarks)
Conversational agents, chatbots, and voice assistants in patient- or clinician-facing health interactions
Generative AI and LLMs in health information, clinical communication, or digital health workflows
AI methods for internet-based health information analysis, misinformation detection, or infoveillance
Automated monitoring, quality assessment, or synthesis of online health information

Participatory, Patient-Centered, and Population eHealth

Patient engagement, participatory medicine, e-patients, and virtual health communities
Internet-mediated implementation science: adoption, sustainability, and real-world scale-up of digital health tools
Digital public health and population-level applications of internet-connected tools

Emerging and Foundational Internet-Enabled Technologies

Generative AI, large language models, and conversational agents as applied to internet-connected health interactions
Internet of Things, wearables, connected home devices, and ambient computing in health
Digital health strategic planning and organizational transformation through internet-enabled systems
Environmentally sustainable health care enabled by digital connectivity

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