JMIR Publications has not only been one of the first open access publishers in the world, it has also led the way in creating open access business models, and innovating in the space of digital archiving, altmetrics, and knowledge dissemination.
We are proud of our innovations and role as co-founder for the following products and services:
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1999 |
Founded by Prof Eysenbach, one of the first open access journals in the world (before Plos, BMC, etc) First open access journal in the JCR medical informatics category One of the first journals with transparent peer-review (peer-reviewers are acknowledged by name in each article) |
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2003 |
Digital Preservation System for self- and 3rd-party archiving of cited webpages (What is WebCite?) |
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2006 Open Access Advantage Study |
Landmark cohort study on the citation advantage of open access articles in JMIR and Plos Biology |
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2008 |
Conference series and social network, the original premier congress and program on emerging technology and medicine, focusing on patient-centered innovation. |
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2009 Preprints and Open peer review |
JMIR Publications is the first publisher posting submissions to a preprint server for public review (if the author opts in) |
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2009 Co-founder, OASPA |
JMIR/Dr Eysenbach was a co-founder and first board member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association |
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2010 |
What is the RefCheck process? - Automated references clean-up / checking / corrections for copyediting and XML typesettinhttps://www.trendmd.org/g (OrangeX -Online References ANalysis and GEnerator of XML). Also used for automated reviewer-suggestions. |
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2011 Twimpact Factor, Tweetations, Altmetrics |
JMIR was the first journal in the world which (since 2008) systematically collected social media-based signals (tweets). In 2011, a seminal article illustrated the usefulness of these metrics (today called altmetrics) |
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2013 Co-founder, TrendMD |
Groundbreaking knowledge dissemination and article filtering system. Developed and pilot-tested at JMIR, now a network of hundreds of academic publishers (What is TrendMD?) |
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2016 Crowdfunding |
See What is the Crowdfunding Widget? |
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2016 Karma System |
Credits for author, reviewers, editors. This program was replaced by the Karma Reviewer Rewards Program in 2026.
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2018 Registered Reports and IRRIDs |
IRRIDs are a proposal for new identifiers to link protocols with results papers, both of which together constitute a "registered report" (What is a International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID)?) |
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2019 Superjournals |
What is JMIRx? |
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2022 LLM Performance |
JMIR Publishes the first paper on commercially available LLM performance on medical licensing exams. Watch the video here. |
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2023 Gen AI Best Practices |
JMIR publishes Best Practices on Use of Generative AI |
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2024 Author Videos |
Launch of the Author Stories Program providing researchers the opportunity to share their stories via structured video. |
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2025 Research Integrity |
Joins the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) and integrates STM Integrity Hub into routine operations to further support the integrity and high quality of scholarly publishing and the published scientific record. |
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2026 Research Integrity Partnership |
JMIR Publications partnered with Signals to integrate automated screening tools, enhancing editorial rigor and safeguarding research integrity. |
You can download the JMIR Publications innovations timeline image here.