The peer review process for JMIR Publications journals involves external peer reviewers (external from the journal's editor or editorial board) who are invited to review and share their opinions about the submission and to provide suggestions for improvements. The peer reviewers are usually academics and preferably experts in the field (for example, those who may have published similar papers), but we also encourage lay reviewers and request that peer reviewers disclose their skills and limitations in the peer-review form.
Usually, all articles in the JMIR Publications journal portfolio are peer reviewed, with rare exceptions for editorials, letters to the editor and author replies (to letters to the editor), commentaries (invited), or corrigenda. For more information about peer review based on article types, please see the following article outlining information about individual article types currently accepted by JMIR Publications: What are the article types for JMIR Publications journals?
Note: peer reviewers are named at the end of each published article.
Thus, whether or not an article has been peer reviewed can be easily determined by scrolling to the footer of the published article, which shows the names of the reviewers or the statement "This is a non–peer-reviewed article" in the (rare) cases of unreviewed editorials, letters, or corrigenda:
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- What does the peer-review process at JMIR journals look like?
- What is open peer review?
- How does the JMIR peer-review form look like?
- How can I become a peer reviewer and what are the qualifications required?
- (for reviewers) How to write a high-quality peer review
- What are the article types for JMIR Publications journals?
- JMIR Publications Reviewer Hub