FAQs
General Frequently Asked Questions
- What is a Registered Report?
- What does the "cited by" tab display, and why are citations missing?
- What is the peer review process? Are all papers in JMIR Publications journals peer reviewed?
- What is your advertising policy?
- How to resize an image and convert to PNG format?
- Why am I getting plain text passwords in my emails, are my passwords hashed?
- My research is funded by NIH and I am required to submit to PubMed / PubMed Central. Is any action required?
- What is a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and what is the format of the DOI for JMIR Publications articles?
- Where do I find the earlier articles of the Journal of Participatory Medicine (JoPM) (pre-2017)
- How can I delete my user account?
- I am not receiving your emails (have not received a decision email, acceptance email, copyediting request, proofreading request, content alerts...)
- What is the history of the Journal of Participatory Medicine and why is it published by JMIR Publications now?
- What is a "Creative Commons License"?
- I published an article with you and I now want to change my name
- How long after publication does it take for an article to show up in PubMed?
- I want to cite a JMIR article, but there are no page numbers. How do I cite a JMIR article properly?
- How does JMIR Publications define a Conflict of Interest (COI)?
- Can I use the logo of JMIR Publications?
- When should I publish my protocol/proposal/methods paper? Is there a policy against publishing a protocol after data collection?
- Do JMIR Preprints get a DOI? What happens if the final version (Version of Record VOR) is published?
- How do I change my email address?
- Is everything in JMIR journals open access, and what does open access mean?
- Are your journals eligible to receive open access funds from Research Council UK and COAF?
- What is JMIR's policy on self-archiving, are JMIR journals "green" open access journals?
- How do I request an appeal (re-review) of an editorial decision on my manuscript?
- How do I create a user account and profile at JMIR?
- We are organizing a conference - can we publish our proceedings / abstracts in iProceedings?
- Does JMIR peer-review apps?
- How to Subscribe/Unsubscribe from newly published article email newsletter for the journals
- I am a reporter/news editor/blogger - are there are any reporting restrictions on the articles published on your website?