About JMIR Publications:

JMIR Publications, celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2024, is a leading open access digital health research publisher. As a pioneer in open access publishing, JMIR Publications is committed to driving innovation in scholarly communications, advancing digital health research, and promoting open science principles. Our portfolio features 35 open access, peer-reviewed journals dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality research in the field of digital health, including the Journal of Medical Internet Research, as well as cross-disciplinary journals such as JMIR Research Protocols and the new title JMIR XR & Spatial Computing. 

JMIR Research Protocols is a core component of our Open Science mission - publishing metholodologies in advance of results provides clarity on the capabilities of a study, reduces bias towards positive results, and creates an early citable record of the research. The journal publishes methodologies and grant proposals across all areas of health research and is indexed in PubMed and Scopus - unique for a protocols journal.

JMIRx (jmirx.org) is a new journal series (announced end of 2019) and new type of journal, which we call "superjournals". Superjournals, as we define them, sit on top of preprint servers and organize peer-reviews and also curate (edit, copyedit, publish) the version-of-record, i.e. the final accepted version (PRC model). (note that more recently the PRC model was also adopted by eLife, but the JMIR model - which precedes eLife, differs in important ways, most importantly we still have a binary accept/reject decision).