For Authors and Editorial Issues
FAQs on submission and peer-review process, editorial policies, reporting guidelines, etc.
Editorial Board
Impact Factor
- What is the Impact Factor of JMIR Medical Informatics
- What is the Impact Factor of JMIR Serious Games?
- What is the Impact Factor of JMIR mHealth and uHealth?
- What is Impact Factor misuse?
- What is the Impact Factor of JMIR Research Protocols?
- What is an Impact Factor? What is JMIR's Impact Factor?
Fast-Track
ORCIDs
- As submitting author, where do I enter the ORCIDs of my coauthors?
- I already created an ORCID, why do I still receive reminders?
- Is my ORCID valid? The bubble next to my name is orange rather than green
- How do I add an ORCID to my JMIR User Profile?
- As a co-author, how do I add my ORCID to the manuscript metadata?
- What is an ORCID, why is it mandatory to have one, and how can I get one?
JMIR Theme Issues
Submission
- How to become an author at JMIR
- I'm the corresponding author for a paper — what contact information is required?
- Submitting manuscripts from MedRxiv/BioRxiv to JMIR journals
- How do I change the title/abstract/authors in a Preprint?
- How do I remove my preprint?
- What is your data sharing policy?
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Reporting Guidelines
- I'm publishing a paper about a randomized controlled trial. What items are required for publication?
- What are some examples of methods/study designs that should appear in the article title?
- I am getting an error message in the Google form for CONSORT-EHEALTH suggesting that the text I am entering is too long
- How do I cite my trial registration?
- How should P values be reported?
- What are JMIR's guidelines for article titles?
Peer-Review (FAQs for Reviewers)
- Will I stay anonymous as peer-reviewer? (double blind peer-review?)
- How do I accept a review request?
- Are there any special instructions to peer-review for JMIR Research Protocols (JRP)?
- Do JMIR journals only publish "Internet" research?
- As a reviewer, where do I find the tracked changes version of the manuscript I am re-reviewing?
- I am a reviewer - how do I contact the editor for a question?
Peer-Review (FAQs from Authors)
- Should I provide author information inside the manuscript or should it be anonymized (which may also mean to blind some references)?
- How do I change my preprint settings or availability of preprints?
- As author, who can/should I nominate as peer-reviewer?
- How do I know if my paper has been reviewed?
- What does the peer-review process at JMIR journals look like?
- I am an author - where can I find the past reviewer comments?
Innovations, Knowledge Translation/Dissemination Add-Ons
- What are JMIR's innovations?
- What metrics can TrendMD provide to help me assess the quality and quantity of promotion?
- What are altmetrics, tweetations, twimpact factor (tw7)?
- What is the Crowdfunding Widget?
- What is a "Lifelong Author Ad"?
- What is a sponsored Tweet?
WebCite
- RefCheck: Getting errors while trying to save `web` type citation?
- I am receiving the "When WebCite tried to archive the page, it received a Page Not Found error from the website concerned." message for a website I am trying to archive.
- Is WebCite free? How can I support WebCite?
- What is WebCite?
- I am the copyright holder of material archived in WebCite, how can I request to remove it?