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 Public Health and Surveillance?
- Which journals are indexed in SCI/SCIE/JCR?
- Which JMIR journals are indexed in Web of Science/SCIE and have an 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?
Fast-Track
ORCIDs
- Authenticate ORCID with JMIR
- 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?
JMIR Theme Issues
Submission
- How to become an author at JMIR?
- How to submit to a JMIRx journal
- Submission of Articles with Existing Peer-Reviews from Other Journals (PePR pilot)
- What should be included in a cover letter?
- (for authors) Why are details about the funding of my research requested in the submission form?
- What are the Journal Sections for JMIR journals?
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Reporting Guidelines
- I'm publishing a paper about a randomized controlled trial. What specific items are required for publication?
- What are some examples of methods/study designs that should appear in the article title?
- Guidelines for writing abstracts
- Guidelines for Reporting Statistics
- 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?
Peer-Review (FAQs for Reviewers)
- How can a reviewer delete a review?
- Will I stay anonymous as a 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?
- How to pause review requests from JMIR when on leave
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 an author, who can/should I nominate as a 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
- (for authors) What is Your Press Release Service?
- What is a PREreview Online Preprint Journal Club?
- Visual Abstract Gallery
- What is an Author Interview Video?
- What is a Visual Abstract?
- What is the "PubMed Now!" ("ahead-of-print") option when I pay the APF?
WebCite
- Why Can't I Access 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?