What are the forthcoming theme issues? – JMIR Publications

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We are publishing the following theme issues:

Theme Issue Title	Sponsor Status	Editors / Acquisition Editors	Open/Closed Call for Papers	Due Date for Submissions	Notes (JMIR Staff)
Theme Issue: Special Issue Covid-19 Journal of Medical Internet Research	Unsponsored	JMIR Editors	Open call	TBD
Theme Issue: Apps for COVID-19 (#Apps4Covid) JMIR mHealth and uHealth	Unsponsored	Laurie Buis	Open call	TBD
Theme Issue: Coronavirus nCoV 2019 Outbreak Rapid Reports JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	Unsponsored	Travis Sanchez	Open call	TBD
Theme Issue: COVID-19 and Mental Health: Impact and Interventions JMIR Mental Health	Unsponsored	John Torous	Open call	TBD	Z
Theme issue: Human Factors of the COVID-19 Outbreak JMIR Human Factors	Unsponsored	Andre Kushniruk	Open call	TBD
Theme issue: Nursing Informatics and COVID-19 JMIR Nursing	Unsponsored	Elizabeth Borycki	Open call	TBD	Z
Special Theme Issue / e-Collection: The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Rehabilitation JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies	Unsponsored	Lisa Sheehy	Open call	TBD	Z
Theme Issue: Digital Approaches for Pediatric Healthcare Delivery during the Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting	Unsponsored	Sherif Badawy	Open call	TBD	Z
Theme Issue 2021-22: Chatbots and COVID-19 Journal of Medical Internet Research	Sponsored (WHO), unsponsored (20% discount)	Andy Pattison (WHO), Virgina Arnold (WHO), Robert Marten (WHO), Hebe Gouda (WHO), Tina Purnet (WHO)	Open call	April 15, 2022
Theme Issue: Social Media, Ethics, and COVID-19 Misinformation Journal of Medical Internet Research	Unsponsored (20% discount)	Michael Gisondi, Matthew Strehlow, Ali S. Raja, Jeremy Faust, Michael Gottlieb, Lauren Westafer	Open call	March 31, 2022	Z
Theme Issue: Medical Informatics and COVID-19 JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Christian Lovis	Open call	TBD
Theme Issue 2022: Health Natural Language Processing and Applications JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored (20% discount)	Tianyong Hao, Buzhou Tang, Zuofeng Li	Open call	March 21, 2022
Theme Issue (2022): Celebrating Cochrane Skin: 25 Years of Evidence-Based Dermatology JMIR Dermatology	Unsponsored (No article processing fees)	Robert Dellavalle, Robert Boyle	Open call	June 1, 2023	Z
Theme Issue: The New Digital Normal in Health and Medicine *Journal of Medical Internet Research*	Unsponsored	Tiffany Leung	Open Call	TBD
Theme Issue: Reproductive Informatics: Implications for Women's Health and Informed Choice Journal of Medical Internet Research	Unsponsored	Rita Kukafka Tiffany Leung	Open Call	TBD
Theme Issue: IEEE SeGAH Annual Conference: Serious Games and Applications for Health JMIR Serious Games	Unsponsored	Nuno Dias Nuno Rodrigues João L Vilaça Duarte Duque Jaime Garcia Baki Kocaballi	Open Call	December 31, 2023	Z
ChatGPT, Generative Language Models and Generative AI in Medical Education JMIR Medical Education	Unsponsored	Kaushik P. Venkatesh Maged N. Kamel Boulos	Open Call	July 31, 2023

Our published theme issues

Theme Issue Title	Sponsor	Editors / Acquisition Editors	Open/Closed Call for Papers	Due Date for Submissions	Notes (JMIR Staff)
Theme Issue: The Role of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Health Care JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored (20% discount)	Dilbag Singh, Robertas Damaševičius, Vijay Kumar	Open call	October 15, 2022
Theme Issue 2021: Emerging Challenges and Advancements In Health Informatics with New Generation Unsupervised Learning JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	B.Nagaraj, Danilo Pelusi, Valentina E. Balas	Open call	Closed August 21, 2021	Z
Theme Issue 2021: Health Natural Language Processing and Applications JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Tianyong Hao, Buzhou Tang, Zhengxing Huang,	Open call	Closed March 31, 2021	Z
Theme issue 2021: Outbreaks and Public Health Surveillance research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	Sponsored	Haitham Bashier, Rami Saadeh, Mohammad Alyahya, Magid Al Gunaid	Closed	Closed	Z
Theme issue 2020: AI-powered Security and privacy in Smart E-Health JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Sang-Bing Tsai	Open call	Closed July 31, 2021	Z
Theme Issue 2020: Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Improve E-Health and M-Health JMIR mHealth and uHealth	Unsponsored	Sang-Bing Tsai	Open call	March 31, 2021	Z
Theme Issue 2020: Voices in Adolescent Technology Use and Mental Wellness JMIR Mental Health	Sponsored	Anna Jolliff, Megan Moreno	Closed	Closed December 15, 2020	Z
Medical Artificial Intelligence Applications in China JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Zhenyu Du, Katerina Kalemaki, Hailong Li	Invited	Closed July 31, 2020	Z
National NLP Clinical Challenges/Open Health Natural Language Processing 2019 Challenge Selected Papers JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Yanshan Wang, Feichen Shen, Ozlem Uzner	Invited	Closed July 31, 2020	Z
Health Natural Language Processing JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Tianyong Hao, Buzhou Tang, Zhengxing Huang	Open call	Closed January 15, 2020	Z
Semantics of Mental Health JMIR Medical Informatics	Unsponsored	Jiang Bian, Cui Tao, Yi Guo, Jennifer Dahne	Open call	Closed December 1, 2019	Z
The Digital Therapeutic Alliance JMIR Mental Health	Unsponsored	Reeva Lederman, Simon D'Alfonso	Open call	Closed November 30, 2019	Z
20th Anniversary Issue	Sponsored by JMIR - no Article Processing Fees	Staff	Invited & Open Call	Closed September 15, 2019
Field Epidemiology Research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET)	Ezzeddine Mohsni, Magid Al-Gunaid, Haitham Bashier Abbas	Closed call for papers, 18 invited	Closed	Z
European Perspective on Connected Health JMIR	ENJECT	Brian Caulfield, Myra Tilney, Hrvoje Belani	Closed call for papers, 8 invited	Closed	Z
Computing and Mental Health (2019) JMIR Mental Health	Unsponsored	Rafael Calvo, John Torous, Greg Wadley, Maria Wolters	Open call	Presenting at 4th Symposium on Computing and Mental Health: March 4, 2019 Not Presenting: June 10, 2019	Z
Health professions digital education: what works best, when, for whom and at what cost? JMIR	World Health Organization	Josip Car, Ana Marusic	Closed call, 14 invited papers	Closed	Z
Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials in a Bayesian Framework JMIR	Unsponsored	Marcus Bendtsen	Open Call	Closed December 15, 2019	Z
Robotics in Medicine, Psychology, and Psychotherapy JMIR	Unsponsored	Christiane Eichenberg	Open Call	Closed February 15, 2019	Z
Video Games for Mental Health JMIR Mental Health	Unsponsored	Vero Vanden Abeele, Max Birk, John Torous, Greg Wadley	Open Call	Closed February 15, 2019	Z
Blockchain for Health Care and Biomedical Science JMIR	Unsponsored	Peng Zhang, Kevin A Clauson	Open call	Closed February 1, 2019	Z
Mass Gathering Preparedness and Public Health Recommendations JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Research Network	Yousef Khader, Mark Smolinski, Marlo Libel, Adam Crawley	Open call	Closed November 18, 2018	Z
Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV/AIDS Interventions (ATN) JMIR Research Protocols	Emory University	Sybil Hosek, Brian Mustanski, Ian Holloway, Susannah Allison, Rebecca Schnall, Audrey Pettifor	Closed, by invitation only (NIH network)	Closed	Z
Population Size Estimation Procedures and Findings for Populations at High Risk of HIV Infection in Global Settings JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	CDC (20% off for unsolicited non-CDC papers)	Dimitri Prybylski, Joyce Neal	Open call	Closed October 31, 2018	Z
Computing and Mental Health (2018) JMIR, JMIR Mental Health	Unsponsored	Saeed Abdullah, Jakob E. Bardram, Rafael Calvo, Tanzeem Choudhury, Mary Czerwinski, Elizabeth Murnane, Mirco Musolesi, John Torous, Greg Wadley	Open call	Closed February 15, 2018	Z
Cybersecurity in Medicine and Biomedical Research JMIR	Takeda Pharmaceuticals: 20% off for all submissions	Perakslis and Stanley	Open call	Closed January 15, 2018	Z
Connected Health (CHC17) All JMIR journals	Personal Connected Health Alliance (PCHA), Partners HealthCare Connected Health (PCH) - 20% off	Timothy Hale	Only open for authors who have been selected to present a poster at CHC17 in Boston	Closed January 15, 2018	Z
Mining Online Health Reports JMIR, JMIR Medical Informatics, JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	Unsponsored	Nigel Collier et al	Open Call	Closed June 15, 2017	Z
Improving Global and National Responses to the HIV Epidemic Through High Quality HIV Surveillance Data JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	Brian Rice, James Hargraeves, Stef Baral, Keith Sabin	Closed call, 8 invited papers	Closed	M P
Improving Global and National Responses to the HIV Epidemic Through High Quality HIV Surveillance Data JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine	Brian Rice, James Hargraeves, Stef Baral, Keith Sabin	Closed call, 8 invited papers	Closed	M P
Use of Mobile Technologies for National-Scale Population Surveys JMIR	Johns Hopkins University Global mHealth Initiative	Ellen Rosskam, Adnan Hyder	Closed call, 7 invited papers	Closed January 15, 2017	M P
Participatory Disease Surveillance JMIR Public Health & Surveillance	Skoll Global Threats Fund	Adam Crawley et al	Closed call, 10 invited papers	Closed	M P
Computing and Mental Health (2016/2017) JMIR	Unsponsored	Rafael A. Calvo, Rosalind Picard, Karthik Dinakar, Helen Christensen	Open call	Closed October 15, 2016

TBD = To be determined

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