What is JMIRx?

JMIRx is a new journal series (launched end of 2019) and new type of journal, which we call "superjournals". Superjournals (a type of "overlay" journal) are sitting on top of preprint servers and offer peer-review and copyediting/archiving/indexing, thus do everything a "normal" journal does, except that authors no longer have to submit their manuscript to a journal - instead, our acquisition and review editors find the papers they want to publish and extend conditional offers of publication to interesting articles published in Preprint servers, as well as soliciting reviews and commentaries. In addition to the "editorial prospecting" workflow, authors can also self-nominate their existing preprints for publication (which is the equivalent to a traditional journal submission), without going through another submission process. If superjournals ask for revisions, these revisions are also uploaded to the Preprint server.

We see this as the future of publishing, as predicted 20 years ago in the year 2000:

Researchers could submit type-1 electronic papers [non peer-reviewed preprints] to preprint servers for discussion and peer-review, and journal editors and publishers would pick and bid for the best papers they want to see as ‘type-2 papers’ [version of record] in their journal.” (Eysenbach G,The impact of preprint servers and electronic publishing on biomedical research. Curr Opin Immunol. 2000 Oct;12(5):499-503) 

We are currently launching the following superjournals:

• JMIRx|Med - sitting on top of the medRxiv preprint server and covering the subjects covered in medRxiv
• JMIRx|Bio - sitting on top of the bioRxiv preprint server and covering the subjects covered in bioRxiv

In addition, manuscript submissions can be transferred from the JMIR preprint server and JMIR journals to JMIRx and vice versa.

See also:

• What are JMIR's innovations?