Journal info (provided by editor)

% accepted last year
50% accepted
% immediately rejected last year
2% imm. rejected
Articles published last year
500 articles
Manuscripts received last year
850 manuscripts
Open access status
open access
Manuscript handling fee
$90 per manuscript

Impact factors (provided by editor)

Two-year impact factor
4.70
Five-year impact factor
5.70

About

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR, www.jmir.org) is the flagship journal of JMIR Publications and consistently ranked as the leading (#1) journal in its discipline, with a 2013 impact factor of 4.7, out of 25 leading medical informatics journals.
JMIR Publications, the leading publisher for digital health, continues to grow, now has offices in Toronto and Hongkong, and publishes a dozen journals at the intersection between health and technology/innovation, including JMIR Research Protocols, JMIR Serious Games, JMIR Medical Informatics, interactive Journal of Medical Research, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, JMIR Mental Health, JMIR Human Factors, JMIR Rehabilitation and Cyborg Technologies, Medicine 2.0, and others. JMIR Publications also produces the leading academic conference s

Duration of manuscript handling phases

Duration first review round
1.8 months
Tot. handling time acc. manuscripts
2.6 months
Decision time immediate rejection
1 days
Average number of review rounds
2.1 rounds
Difficulty of reviewer comments
3.1 / 5.0 (moderate)
Average number of review reports
2.5 reports

Characteristics of peer review process

Quality of review reports
4.2 / 5.0
Overall rating manuscript handling
4.4 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 24.7 weeks. Overall rating: 5 (excellent). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
The editor's thoughtful feedback played an important role in improving the manuscript. Despite the lengthy revision process, the effort was worthwhile, as it led to a much stronger and more satisfactory final product.