(Toronto, June 28, 2023) JMIR Publications announced today that JMIR mHealth and uHealth has received an increased Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 5.0, as published in Clarivate’s 2023 Journal Citation Reports. This score places JMIR mHealth and uHealth in the first quartile (Q1) of the “Health Care Science & Services” category and an overall increase of total citations by 33% over last year—a clear indicator of the journal’s key role in the dissemination of quality research on the growing number of health interventions on mobile and wearable devices in health care.

In total, 14 of the 34 open access journals published by JMIR Publications now have a JIF—that’s a 133% increase since last year, and we still have more journals launched in the last 2 years that won’t yet be relevant for metrics such as the JIF and CiteScore.

Our journals with an inaugural JIF include:

Interactive Journal of Medical Research - 2
JMIR Aging - 4.9
JMIR Cancer - 2.8
JMIR Formative Research - 2.2
JMIR Human Factors - 2.7
JMIR Medical Education - 3.6
JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting - 3.7
JMIR Research Protocols - 1.7

The JMIR Publications flagship and tenured journals continue to remain strong:

Our flagship journal, the Journal of Medical Internet Research, has gone from 7.1 to 7.4
JMIR Medical Informatics remains at 3.2
JMIR Mental Health has gone from 6.3 to 5.2
JMIR mHealth and uHealth has gone from 4.9 to 5
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance has gone from 14.6 to 8.5
JMIR Serious Games has gone from 3.3 to 4

We would like to emphasize that the JIF should be regarded as just one of several metrics used to assess the quality or influence of an article. It is crucial to consider the JIF in conjunction with other indicators rather than relying on it in isolation. We do not support any misuse of the JIF and actively encourage all to use other measures (eg, author satisfaction ratings on SciRev and Google; article usage and scores from services like Eigenfactor, Google Scholar, CiteScore, Altmetric, Plum Analytics, etc), alongside new and emerging open science measures that support broader advances in science and academia. We align with DORA on the importance of contextual metrics and the need to transition the research ecosystem away from JIF dominance.

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