Announcements

• JMIR Publications included in The Globe and Mail’s second-annual ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies

  JMIR Publications is pleased to announce it has achieved a spot on the 2020 Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies.

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• JMIR Announces New Co-Editor-in-Chief

  The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rita Kukafka, DrPH, MA, FACMI, as Co-Editor-in-Chief.

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• Job Posting: Request for Applications: Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board members for an exciting new journal, JMIRx-Med #xCOVID19

  JMIR Publications is looking for one or more (Co-) Editors-in-Chief for a new journal, JMIRx-Med #xCovid-19

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• JMIR journals continue to lead the field according to newly released Journal Citation Reports

  (Philadelphia/Toronto, July 2, 2020) We are excited to announce that the Journal of Medical Internet Research has received an impact factor of over 5 (5.03, 5 Year Impact Factor: 6.00) according to the newly released Journal Citation Reports (Web of Sci...

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• PREreview + JMIR Publications Virtual COVID-19 Preprint Journal Club: April 14th, 2020

  PREreview and JMIR Publications are joining forces to bring together scientists from across the globe for a virtual discussion and collaborative review of a recent preprint covering new research related to coronavirus SARS-COV-2 leading to the disease referred to as COVID-19.

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• Call for Preprint Nominations: PREreview + JMIR Publications Virtual COVID-19 Preprint Journal Club

  PREreview and JMIR Publications are joining forces to bring together scientists from across the globe for a virtual discussion and collaborative review of a recent preprint covering new research related to coronavirus SARS-COV-2 leading to the disease referred to as COVID-19.

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• Call for papers: Call for Papers: COVID-19 research rapidly peer-reviewed and published in JMIR journals

  Submit your COVID-19 research to the Journal of Medical Internet Research or other JMIR journal!

  
  

  
  

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• University of California and JMIR Publications Launch Pilot to Advance Open Access to UC Research

  The University of California and JMIR Publications today announced a two-year partnership that will make it easier and more affordable for researchers from all 10 UC campuses to publish in one of JMIR’s 30+ open access journals. The pilot, which provid...

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• JMIR Publications Makes the Prestigious Growth 500 List

  Canadian Business and Maclean’s today ranked JMIR Publications No. 284 on the 30th annual Growth 500, the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. Produced by Canada’s premier busi...

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• Happy Birthday JMIR: Call for Papers 20th Anniversary Issue

  To celebrate our milestone and exit from the teenage years, we are preparing a special issue, to be published at the end of 2019. This special issue will consist mainly of invited papers written by leaders in the field but we are also soliciting papers from the academic community. 

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• JMIR eliminates Submission Fee for submissions in July 2019

  To celebrate our 20 years anniversary of JMIR Publications, as well as the latest Impact Factor release which confirms that JMIR journals are leading the digital health journal ranking, we are pleased to announce t...

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• JMIR journals continue to lead the field according to Clarivate Journal Impact Factors

  
  

  
  

  (Philadelphia/Toronto, June 26, 2019) We are excited to announce that, according to the newly released Clarivate Journal Impact Factors published in the 2019 Journal Citations Report (JCR), JMIR Publications’ journals continue to not only rank among the top digital health jou...

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• Call for papers: Special Issue on Using Technology to Detect, Combat, and Prevent Research Misconduct: Call for Papers

  The Journal of Medical Internet Research is planning to publish a special issue on using technology to detect and combat research misconduct.

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• Job Posting: Be the next Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Internet Research or JMIR mHealth and uHealth!

  JMIR Publications invites nominations and applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief (EIC) for the Journal of Medical Internet Research and JMIR mHealth and uHealth.

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• Call for papers: Special Issue: Blockchain for Health Care and Biomedical Science

  The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to the application of More...

• Call for papers: Theme Issue: Bayesian Methods In Medical Research

  The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to the Bayesian Methods in Medical research.

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• Theme Issue on Robotics in Medicine, Psychology, and Psychotherapy: Call for Papers

  JMIR is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to the topic of Robotics in Medicine, Psychology, and Psychotherapy (Guest Editor: Eichenberg)

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• Call for papers: CHC 2018 Poster Sessions: Call for Abstracts

  Here is your opportunity to apply to present a poster at the 2018 Connected Health Conference (CHC18), October 17-19, 2018 at the Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Combining the industry's two leading events—the Partners Connected Health Symposium and the PCHAlliance Connec...

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• New Clarivate Journal Impact Factors confirm JMIR journals as top journals

  (27 June 2018). According to the new Journal Impact Factors in the JCR 2017 released today, the journals of JMIR Publications remain the leading digital health journals, with J Med Internet Res (JIF 4.671) ranked #1 and JMIR mhealth and uHealth (JIF 4.541...

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• 4 New JMIR journal titles in 2018

  (Toronto, Jan 17th, 2018) JMIR Publications is proud to announce the launch of 4 new journal titles in 2018: JMIR Perioperative Medicine, JMIR Aging, JMIR Pediatrics and...

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• Special Issue of JMIR on Computing and Mental Health (2018): Call for papers

  The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is inviting submissions as the official journal for a special issue dedicated to the topic of Computing and Mental Health.

  
  

  Mental health issues affect a significant portion of the world’s population and can result in d...

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• JMIR Publications is the new publisher of the Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM)

  (Toronto/Boston, Dec 6th, 2017)  The Society for Participatory Medicine (SPM, https://participatorymedicine.org) and JMIR Publications (http://jmirpublications.com) today announced a partnership to...

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• Call for Papers: JMIR Theme Issue "Cybersecurity in Healthcare and Biomedical Research"

  JMIR is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to the topic of Cybersecurity in Healthcare and Biomedical Research.

  
  

  Cybersecurity has become a dominant topic in medicine, biomedical research and everyday life but...

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• JMIR now has an unprecedented impact factor of 5.175 (5-yr impact factor: 5.835)

  (Toronto, Jun 15th, 2017) Clarivate Analytics (formerly the IP Division of Thomson Reuters) has released its' impact factors for 2016 (Journal Citaton Reports, 2017), which reflect how often papers published in 2014-2015 were cited in 2016. The impact factor of the Journal of Medical Internet...

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• JMIR Special Issue on Mining Online Health Reports - Call for Papers

  JMIR is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to the topic of Mining Online Health Reports. Deadline: June 15th, 2017

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• Top 10 Most Tweeted JMIR Articles in 2016 - Pokemon wins

  Top tweeted articles published in 2016 by twimpact factor tw7 (number of tweets within the first week after publication). Articles in the top 20% by Tw7 are more likely to be among the 20% highest cited papers of a specifi...

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• Call for Papers for Special Issue of Journal of Medical Internet Research: Computing and Mental Health

  August 2016: JMIR is inviting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will be dedicated to the topic of Computing and Mental Health.

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• Impact Factor 2015 for Open Access journals confirms JMIR as leading journal

  Update: This is an archived post. The latest impact factor released in June 2017 for JMIR is an unprecendented 5.175 (2016). At the same time, JMIR mHealth has a stunning inaugural ...

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• Call for papers: 2016 Call for Abstracts - Poster Session at Partners Connected Health Symposium

  The Partners Connected Health Symposium is a change-agent conference that promotes innovative thinking and the application of personal consumer health technologies to support new models of care delivery. With a focus on trends a...

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• JMIR Challenges announced

  (7 Dec 2015, Toronto) JMIR Publications is proud to announce the creation of a new platform and journal for innovators and organizations seeking solutions and trying to stimulate innovation: JMIR Challenges.

  
  

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• Impact Factor 2014 for Open Access journals confirms JMIR as leading journal

  Update: A newer impact factor 2015 (released in 2016) is available and increased by over 1 point -- click here

  
  

  (Toronto/Philadelphia, Jun 2015) Thomson Reuters has published the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) w...

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• JMIR journals selected for Web of Science New Edition

  (June 2015) Thomson Reuters, producer of the Journal Citation Reports and Web of Science and other database products, is creating a new edition of Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index, ESCI); and we are proud to report that JMIR journals have been selected for the content...

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• Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium Announces Joint Program with JMIR Publications

  Call for Abstracts is Now Extended. Extended Submission Deadline: May 29 at midnight EST

  
  

  APRIL 1, 2015, BOSTON, MA -- The Connected Health Symposium, hosted annually by Partners HealthCare, today announced it has established a joint program with JMIR Publications to...

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• New JMIR journals - no submission or publication fees!

  We are pleased to announce our forthcoming new journals, all of which have currently no submission or publication fees, and all of which focus on emerging technologies and patient-centered innovations in specific areas, going beyond Internet/webbased interventions: * JMIR Cancer (http://cancer.jm...

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• Top 10 Tweeted / Top Twimpact Factor Articles of 2014

  As avid JMIR readers know, JMIR has been a pioneer in collecting and using social media metrics long before the term altmetrics became popular. On our "Top Articles" page we rank all JMIR articles by various metrics, including tweets. By clicking on the linkhttp://www.jmir.org/stats/mostTweeted/1...

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• New responsive JMIR website launched

  We are happy to announce the launch of our newly designed responsive website at www.jmir.org and its sister journals. The new stunning design, which features articles cards on the homepage, improved search functionality, easy switching between journals using a drop-down list, altmetrics, improved...

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• Job Posting: Editorial Internship: 1-2 positions available starting Sept 2014

  Editorial Internship: 1-2 positions available starting Sept 2014 Contract Term: Temporary Contract Type: Full Time Salary/Stipend: $22.500-$31.200 p.a. Job Location: Toronto, Canada Application Deadline: applications reviewed starting August 16th, 2014 until filled. Job Categories Business/Strate...

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• JMIR's Impact Factor 2013: 4.7 (5 year IF: 5.7), ranked #1 journal for the 5th time

  (Toronto, 29 July 2014) Today the 2013 journal impact factors (JIF) were released by Thomson Reuters. We are happy and proud to report that --for the fifth year-- the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR, www.jmir.org), the flagship journal of JMIR Publications, is once again ranked as the ...

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• Contribute to mHealth research and development of the new JMIR mHealth peer-review tool for mobile apps!

  We invite you to participate in a survey and give your input for the development of JMIR's new upcoming peer-review tool for mobile apps! There are two different versions of the survey - one for end users of mobile apps, one for developers or companies developing apps. Participate now: Survey for...

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• Medicine 2.0'14: Will you be in Hawaii or Spain?

  ** Medicine 2.0'14: Will you be in Hawaii or Spain - or both? ------------------------------------------------------------ 7th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, Web 2.0 Pick your beach now: Medicine 2.0 Europe Malaga/Spain Oct 9-10, 2014 + Medicine 2.0 World Congress Maui/Hawaii, USA, ...

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• Job Posting: Job Vacancy: Web Developer, with potential to become CTO

  (Posted Oct 24, 2013) JMIR publications at the University Health Network (UHN) is looking for a young motivated individual to work with a team of top scientists and help in the development of various web-based applications for scientific publication, communication and research. For this job we wi...

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• Call for papers: Call for Papers: JMIR Research Protocols

  JMIR Research Protocols (ISSN 1929-0748) publishes peer-reviewed, openly accessible research ideas and grant proposals, study and trial protocols, reports of ongoing research, current methods and approaches, and preliminary results from pilot studies or formative research informing the design of ...

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• Call for papers: Call for Papers: Inaugural Issue of JMIR Serious Games / Editorial Board Members Wanted

  JMIR Serious Games (JSG, ISSN 2291-9279) is a sister journal of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), the top cited journal in health informatics (Impact Factor: 3.8). JSG is a multidisciplinary open access journal devoted to computer/web applications that incorporate elements o...

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• Call for papers: Medicine 2.0 / iMedicalApps mHealth Award

  Medicine 2.0'13 - 6th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research - London, UK, Sept 23-24, 2013 Early Registration now open - www.medicine20congress.com ====================================== UPDATE: Abstract Submission Deadline has passed, b...

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• Meeting Announcement: ISRII

  __Meeting Announcement: ISRII__ The 6th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) Chicago, Illinois, US 16-18 May 2013 The ISRII (http://www.isrii.org) invites you to attend the 6th Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Research o...

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• Job Posting: Founding Editor-in-Chief (multiple positions)

  Contract Term: Temporary Contract Type: Part Time Job Location: Anywhere Application Deadline: applications are accepted continuously Job Categories Business/Strategic Management: Strategy/Planning Information technology Digital Media Editorial/Writing: Documentation/Technical Writing Editing &am...

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• Job Posting: Editorial Interns / Editorial Assistants

  Intern Editorial Internship Contract Term: Temporary Contract Type: Full Time Job Location: Toronto, Canada Application Deadline: applications reviewed throughout 2013 Job Categories Business/Strategic Management: Strategy/Planning Information technology Digital Media Editorial/Writing: Documenta...

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• Call for papers: Publish your grant proposal, protocol, formative research, or early trial results

  Call for Papers: We Publish Your Grant Proposal or Protocol!

  
  

  Developing a grant proposal or writing a study protocol can be as much work as writing a paper - but it is often not "rewarding" as it cannot be cited (e.g. in a CV) as publication. This is about to change, as we now pub...

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• iMedicalApps & Medicine 2.0 mHealth Award 2012

  In partnership with the Medicine 2.0 congress (5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Medicine and Health, Boston, Sept 15-16th, 2012), iMedicalApps is sponsoring an award for the best paper on mobile health presented at the 2012 Medicine 2.0 conference in Boston...

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• 5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Science

  (Jan 24th, 2012) Abstract submissions (Deadline: March 7th, 2012) and early-early bird registrations (special rate for the first 50 registrants!) are now open for the 5th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Science (also known as Medicine 2.0...

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• JMIR partners with DHCX Conference

  JMIR is partnering with leading conference organizers in the field of ehealth, health communication, and mhealth. JMIR-supported conferences enjoy not only promotion and advertising through the JMIR/Medicine 2.0 network, but conference presenters can also submit their full paper to JMIR with the ...

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• Help us to improve our site - Your feedback please

  We plan to expand JMIR into a ehealth research portal, strive to improve our services and website, and the journal itself. To help us serve our readers and authors better, please fill in our survey at http://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/50 ...

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• JMIR Editor to be Inducted as Fellow into the American College of Medical Informatics

  (28 Sep 2011) Gunther Eysenbach, founding editor and publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), has been elected as fellow into the prestigious American College of Medical Informatics, an achievement which represents "recognition by peers of sustained and significant contributi...

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• CONSORT-EHEALTH V1.6

  Authors of RCTs are required to report the trial in accordance with the CONSORT checklist. JMIR is now pilot-testing a CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist, which is an extension of the generic CONSORT checklist - please download the checklist from More...

• Like us on Facebook

  Check out JMIR's revised presence on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/JMedInternetRes. Newly published articles and other news will be published here. Hit the "Like" button to stay informed, or even better, publish our badge on your...

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• Job Posting: Faculty Position at Full Professor Level in Singapore

  The area of expertise could include, but is not limited to, health information systems and clinical decision support systems, or medical text mining, information extraction and biomedical ontologies, or ehealth, health 2.0 and consumer health information seeking. JMIR subscribers have received th...

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• New membership types: Individual Memberships with APF waivers

  NEW SINCE AUG, 16th, 2011: Memberships with APF waivers can now also be restricted to papers with a specific author/coauthor rather than papers coming from a specific department of institution. These are called i-Silver memberships (3/5/10-yr Individual Membership with APF waiver). i-Silver membe...

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• JMIR's new Impact Factor: 4.7 (5-yr IF: 5.0) - remains top journal in its discipline

  (This is an archived post, for 2013/2014 data see this announcement)
  
  (Toronto, June 29th, 2011) The new JMIR Impact Factor for 2010 (released in June 2011 by Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports) has further increased to an un...

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• JMIR to pilot-test CONSORT-EHEALTH checklist

  THE POST BELOW IS OUTDATED - A NEW VERSION OF THE CHECKLIST IS AVAILABLE - see http://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/48
  
  
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• Apologies for a "review reminders" bug (March 16-30th, 2011)

  Between March 16th and March 30th 2011 a bug in our reminder system led to the sending of multiple reminders per day to reviewers or potential reviewers who did not respond to a review request or whose review was overdue. This was caused by a programming error - we did not mean to be "pushy". The fr...

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• 5th Meeting of The International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) and JMIR Theme Issue

  The Journal of Medical internet Research is proud to co-sponsor the 5th Meeting of The International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) to be held on the 7th and 8th April 2011 in Sydney, Australia.
  
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• Medicine 2.0'11 at Stanford University

  Medicine 2.0’11: 4th World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research
  September 17-18, 2011
  
  Stanford University, Stanford, USA
  
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• Open Access Week! JMIR webinar

  (Oct 20, 2010) It's open access week! As part of OA week 2010, JMIR contributes a webinar/slidecast (Slideshare presentation with audio track) on our experiences with and contributions to OA publishing. Watch the webinar at http://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/39 or go to http://slidesha.re/9XeLAS...

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• Presentation about JMIR at Medinfo 2010

  Gunther Eysenbach, founding editor-in-chief and publisher of JMIR, has given a talk about JMIR and future publishing projects at Medinfo 2010 (World Congress of Medical Informatics) in Cape Town. The talk (Tue, Sept 14th, 15:30 in the session "Advances in Health Informatics") was entitled "10 years ...

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• New feature on JMIR Website: Article-Level Impact Measures (most viewed/ tweeted/ purchased/ cited)

  We are proud to present our new "Top Articles" statistics pages which present article-level impact metrics (how often are articles viewed, tweeted, purchased, and cited), and allow users to rank articles by any of these metrics. RSS feeds are also available, so we invite readers to put these feeds o...

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• New Impact Factor for JMIR is now 3.9 (2009)

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  The new JMIR Impact Factor for 2009 (released in June 2010 by Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports) has further increased to 3.9. JMIR remain...

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• New Institutional Bulk Payment Program (IBPP-EL) Membership

  By signing up for the IBPP-EL membership (only $195/yr), an institution (e.g. a research unit, a university library or department) has the same benefits as with the regular EL membership (PDF access), discounted by 50%, plus can receive (quarterly, biannual or annual) consolidated invoices for fees ...

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• JMIR introduces multi-year and "lifetime" individual memberships

  New individual members can now choose between a 1-yea, 2-year, 3-year, 5-year, or even lifelong personal membership (http://www.jmir.org/payment/select/membership).
  Individual memberships enable downloads of PDFs, discounts for conferences, and many more future benefits (we are working on an...

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• Medicine 2.0: Call for Abstracts and Award Nominations

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  Medicine 2.0’10: 3rd World Congress on Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research
  on November 29-30, 2010 in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
  
  Co-sponsored by the Journal of Medical...

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• JMIR increases copyediting / APF changes

  21-Apr-2010/JMIR. Our copyeditors are an important part of JMIR's success. In addition to peer-reviewers' comments and editorial comments, copyeditors often improve the readability of manuscripts. The articles we publish have usually gone through at least 4 hours of professional copyediting services...

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• Server Downtime March 21st-March 27th, 2010

  We apologize for the extended downtime from March 21st-March 27th, 2010 due to a hardware problem (failing hard drive). We took the opportunity to migrate the site to a new hosting environment. Please notify us if you experience any problems, as there may be some configuration issues which slipped ...

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• JMIR launches Open Peer Review

  A new feature on the JMIR website, open peer review articles (http://www.jmir.org/reviewer/openReview/abstracts), allows JMIR users to sign themselves up as peer reviewers for specific articles currently considered by the Journal (in ad...

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• Medicine 2.0'10 in Maastricht: Mark your calendar

  In 2010, the Medicine 2.0 congress (Social Media and Web 2.0 in Health, Medicine, and Biomedical Research, http://www.medicine20congress.com) will - for the first time ever - be hosted in Europe: Maastricht (The Netherlands) - centrally located in Europe a short train ride from Brussels - is the con...

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• Forthcoming Theme Issue on e-Mental Health (NEW DEADLINE!)

  The organizers of the e-Mental Health Summit (the Trimbos-institute, VU University and University of Amsterdam and the International Society for Research in Internet Interventions [ISRII] board) in collaboration with Gunther Eysenbach, editor-in-chief of JMIR, are pleased to invite summit presenters...

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• Inaugural JMIR Medicine 2.0® Award goes to PatientsLikeMe researchers

  (Toronto, Aug 25th, 2009) The winner of the 2009 JMIR Medicine 2.0® Award has been chosen: We are happy to announce that the inaugural JMIR Medicine 2.0® Award goes to the presentation "Patients Informing Practice: Post-Marketing Drug Data in PatientsLikeMe, an Patient-Centered Online Community" b...

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• JMIR Editor receives award for contributions to open access/open source

  Gunther Eysenbach, MD MPH, founding editor and publisher of the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) has been honored with the first Public Knowledge Project Community Contribution Award for editors, for the significant contributions he and his epublishing and open access research group group...

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• JMIR now ranked the #1 health informatics journal, #2 in health care services & sciences category, by Impact Factor

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• JMIR on Twitter

  Follow JMIR (@JMedInternetRes) on Twitter: http://twitter.com/JMedInternetRes
  We'll tweed titles of new articles and important notices (eg Calls for Papers).
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• JMIR to cosponsor Medicine 2.0 conference and creates award

  JMIR - in partnership with the International Medical Informatics Association and other organizations - will cosponsor the 2nd World Conference on Web 2.0 in Health and Medicine ("Medicine 2.0"), Sept 17-18, 2009. Preregister at http://www.medicine20congre...

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• JMIR wins $90.000 award from Canadian Funding Agency

  The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in Canada has just announced that the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) will be awarded a $90.000 grant over the next 3 years.
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• JMIR is a founding member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

  Toronto, 14 Oct 2008. JMIR is proud of its leadership in promoting Open Science on all levels. JMIR is a co-founder of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, launched in October 14th, 2008. The founding members include BioMed Central, Co-Action Publishing, Copernicus, Hindawi Publ...

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• NIH funded authors: Save time by publishing in JMIR

  Since April 2008, legislation in the US requires NIH-funded authors to deposit their manuscripts in PubMed Central (PMC), unless they publish in one of the journals which are already depositing published articles in PMC - JMIR is only one of 2 Impact Factor-ranked journals in the health informatics ...

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• Job Posting: Associate (Section) Editors for JMIR

  JMIR is broadening its editorial board and is looking for outstanding scientists in the area of health informatics (or related fields) with a senior appointment at a research institution and with a publication record (in JMIR and/or other leading biomedical journals). The role of section editors (as...

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• Job Posting: Technical Analyst / Web Developer (PHP/LAMP) as JMIR Technical Lead (Toronto, Canada)

  POSITION: Technical Analyst - OJS/Web-developer EMPLOYER: University Health Network (http://www.uhn.ca/) - Centre for Global eHealth Innovation (http://www.ehealthinnovation.org), Toronto General Hospital - Eysenbach Research Group, Toronto Click "more" for the complete job posting....

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• Job Posting: XML Production Typesetter (Freelancer)

  We are looking for one or more freelancers who will assist in preparing XML-tagged documents (NLM-DTD). If you have experience with preparing XML-tagged manuscripts, ideally using the PubMed Central's NLM-DTD (Blue Library), we want to hear from you. Experience with PHP is a further asset....

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• Job Posting: Copyeditors (Freelancer or Full-time position in Toronto, Canada)

  (Updated/reposted Aug 24, 2012). JMIR Publications Inc. is broadening its network of freelancing copyeditors and is seeking full-time in-house copyeditors. If you are a copyeditor (native English speakers only) with proven experience in editing scholarly manuscripts and particularly the AMA style...

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• ISI/SCI Impact Factors 2007: JMIR remains on top

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  Open Access Journal Remains on Top of Its Discipline - Second Year in a Row - Impact Factor (3.0) now almost equal with JAMIA (3.1)

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• Idea for a CIHR grant proposal: A JMIR theme issue

  The Canadian Institutes of Health has just announced a new type of grant mechanism called a End of Grant Knowledge Translati...

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• Call for Papers: Medicine 2.0

  Submissions for the JMIR Medicine 2.0 Theme Issue is closed -thanks for your submissions, we got over 20 great papers! You may still submit an abstract or panel proposal to the Medicine 2.0 Conference, and we may invite some conference contributors...

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• Cancer survivor makes donation to JMIR

  (Toronto, 7 Nov 2007) We were recently touched by a donation to JMIR made by a patient with CLL. The donor (who prefers to remain anonymous) values the information we publish, particularly cancer related research. We find it remarkable that our journal is read and valued not only by researchers, but...

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• JMIR receives funding from Research Council

  (Toronto, 7. Nov 2007). JMIR is proud to announce that it has received a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) under their Aid to Open Access Journals grants program. JMIR is one of 11 journals supported under this new program. The adjudication committee consisting o...

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• 2006 ISI/SCI Impact Factors confirm JMIR as a top health informatics & health sciences research journal

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  We are happy and proud to report that on June 20th, 2007, ISI/SCI released their 2006 Journal Citation Reports, reporting journal im...

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• Institutional Members: Editing IP addresses

  For institutional members it is now no longer possible to edit their IP addresses themselves. New institutional members should provide their IP range in their initial membership request. ...

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• Authors: How to pay the JSF/FTF/APF

  A number of changes have been made regarding how to pay the JSF (JMIR submission fee), APF (article processing fee), and FTF (fast-track fee). Click on "more" for details.
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• IMPORTANT notice for authors who are currently revising their manuscripts

  Note that we have upgraded our manuscript management system. In contrast to the old system, responses to the reviewers' and editorial comments are now to be pasted into  a notification email to the editor (click "Notify Editor" after logging in and clicking on "Roles: Author&...

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