Journal info (provided by editor)

Manuscripts received last year
850 manuscripts
Articles published last year
500 articles
% accepted last year
50% accepted
Immediately rejected last year
2% imm. rejected
Open access status
open access
Two-year impact factor
4.70

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
Overall rating manuscript handling
4.4 / 5.0

Characteristics of peer review process

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
Quality of review reports
4.3 / 5.0

Latest review

First review round: 11.0 weeks. Overall rating: 5 (excellent). Outcome: Accepted.

Motivation:
Although the review process was a bit lengthy, both the reviewers and the editor provided many constructive suggestions for the manuscript, making it more complete. During this period, I learned a lot from the review process.