About the Journal

International Journal of Medical Internet Research (IJMIR) is a leading health informatics and health services/health policy journal focussing on digital health, data science, health informatics and emerging technologies for health, medicine, and biomedical research.

IJMIR was the first open access journal covering health informatics, and the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Internet-related technologies; a broad field, which is known as “eHealth” or now also “digital health“, which includes mHealth (mobile health). This field also has significant overlaps with what is called “consumer health informatics”, health 2.0/medicine 2.0, or participatory medicine.

This focus makes IJMIR unique among other medical or medical informatics journals, which tend to focus on clinical informatics or clinical applications. As eHealth/mHealth is a highly interdisciplinary field we are not only inviting research papers from the medical sciences, but also from the computer, behavioural, social and communication sciences, psychology, library sciences, informatics, human-computer interaction studies, and related fields.

The term “Internet” is used in its broadest sense, so we are also interested in studies and applications of digital medicine, mobile technologies, social media, novel wearable devices and sensors, connected home appliances, domotics etc.

The journal invites manuscripts that deal with the following topics:

» Novel digital health approaches, methods, and devices

» Large digital medicine trials with clinical impact

» Data science, open data

» Studies evaluating the impact of Internet/social media use or specific eHealth/mHealth interventions on individual health-related or social outcomes

» Evaluations and implementations of innovative mhealth (mobile health) applications, social media apps, ubiquitous computing, or innovative and emerging technologies in health

» Descriptions of the design and impact of Internet and mobile applications and websites or social media for consumers/patients or medical professionals

» Use of the Internet, social media and mhealth in the context of clinical information and communication, including telemedicine

» Use of the Internet, social media, and mhealth in medical research and the basic sciences such as molecular biology or chemistry (e.g. bioinformatics, online factual databases)

» Medical information management and librarian sciences

» e-learning and knowledge translation, online-courses, social media, web-based and mobile programs for undergraduate and continuing education,

» eHealth/mHealth and social media applications for public health and population health technology (disease monitoring, teleprevention, teleepidemiology)

» evidence-based medicine and the Internet and mhealth (e.g. online development or dissemination of clinical guidelines, measuring agreement about management of a given clinical problem among physicians, etc.)

» the impact of eHealth/mHealth/pHealth/iHealth, social media, the Internet, or health care technologies on public health, the health care system and policy

» Methodological aspects of doing Internet/mhealth/social media research, e.g. methodology of web-based surveys

» Design and validation of novel web-based instruments

» Ecological momentary assessment, sensors, mobile technologies for gathering and analyzing data in real-time

» Analysis of e-communities, social media communities, or virtual social networks

» Comparisons of effectiveness of health communication and information on the Internet/mHealth/social media compared with other methods of health communication,

» Effects of the Internet/mhealth/social media and information/communication technology on the patient-physician relationship and impact on public health, e.g. the studies investigating how the patient-physician relationship changes as a result of the new ways of getting medical information

» Ethical and legal problems as well as cross-border and cross-cultural issues of eHealth/mHealth

» Systematic studies examining the quality of medical information available in various online venues

» Methods of evaluation, quality assessment and improvement of Internet information or eHealth applications

» Proposals for standards in the field of medical publishing on the Internet, including self-regulation issues, policies and guidelines to provide reliable healthcare information

» Results and methodological aspects of Internet-based and social media studies, including medical surveys, psychological tests, quality-of-life studies, gathering and/or disseminating epidemiological data, use of the Internet/mobile apps/social media for clinical studies (e-trials), drug reaction reporting and surveillance systems etc.

» Electronic medical publishing, Open Access publishing, altmetrics, and use of the Internet or social media for scholarly publishing (e.g. collaborative peer review)

» Information needs of patients, consumers and health professionals, including studies evaluating search and retrieval behavior of patients

» Web-based studies, e.g. online psychological experiments

» Evaluations of mhealth (mobile) applications, as well as ambient / ubiquitous computing approaches, sensors, domotics, and other cutting-edge technologies

» Personal health records, patient portals, consumer health informatics applications

» Behavior change technologies

» Reviews, viewpoint papers and commentaries touching on the issues and themes listed above are also welcome, but should be grounded in data and/or a thorough literature review

Our journal strongly supports the Open Access initiative. All published articles will be assigned DOI provided by Cross Ref. International Journal of Medical Internet Research will keep up-to- date with the latest advancements in the fields of Medical Internet Research. 

Submit the manuscript by this email attachment at: editorialoffice@scientizepub.com