Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

JMIR Research Protocols (ISSN 1929-0748) publishes protocols, reports of planned or ongoing research, and grant proposals (successful or not).

 

Section Policies

Articles

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Randomized Controlled Trials (funded, already peer-reviewed)

For funded RCTs, please attach any available peer-review reports, and funding notices. Please indicate whether these can/should be published alongside the article by either uploading them as Multimedia Appendix, or as suppl documents for editors' only.

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Randomized Controlled Trials (eHealth)

Use this section for RCTs which are not peer-reviewed. In your cover letter and the protocol itself, clarify if the RCT is funded/ongoing, or not funded.

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Randomized Controlled Trials (non-eHealth)

Use this section for RCTs which are not peer-reviewed. In your cover letter and the protocol itself, clarify if the RCT is funded/ongoing, or not funded.

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Systematic Review Protocols (funded)

Systematic Review Protocols should ideally be following the standards and structure of Cochrane Review Protocols. Note that the protocol must be unpublished - simultaneous publication in the Cochrane Library is not permitted. Include any available peer-review reports as Multimedia Appendix (to be published) or supplementary files (for editors' eyes only).

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Systematic Review Protocols

Use this section to submit systematic review protocols where no external peer-reviews are available. Please clarify in the article and cover letter if this is an ongoing or completed review, or if it is just at the idea/seeking funding stage.

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Grant Proposals (funded)

For funded grant proposals, please attach any available peer-review reports, and funding notices. Please indicate whether these can/should be published alongside the article by either uploading them as Multimedia Appendix, or as suppl documents for editors' only.

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Proposals (eHealth)

For (currently unfunded) grant proposals, please attach any available peer-review reports, and funding notices. Please indicate whether these can/should be published alongside the article by either uploading them as Multimedia Appendix, or as suppl documents for editors' only.

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Proposals (non-eHealth)

For (currently unfunded) grant proposals, please attach any available peer-review reports, and funding notices. Please indicate whether these can/should be published alongside the article by either uploading them as Multimedia Appendix, or as suppl documents for editors' only.

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Non-Randomized Studies (funded)

Protocols of non-randomized studies, including for example qualitative studies etc. Include additional material such as interview guides, questionnaires etc. as Mutlimedia Appendix. For funded grant proposals, please attach any available peer-review reports, and funding notices. Please indicate whether these can/should be published alongside the article by either uploading them as Multimedia Appendix, or as suppl documents for editors' only. Include available peer-review reports.

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Non-randomized Studies

Use this sections for non-randomized study protocols where no external peer-review reports are available.

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Early Reports

Early reports from ongoing studies.

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Formative Studies and eHealth/mHealth Development

Formative studies such as usability studies, reports on technology development etc.

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Non-Randomized Study Protocols and Methods (Non-eHealth)

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Research Priorities Setting

Editors
  • Gunther Eysenbach, Editor/Publisher, JMIR Publications Inc. & Senior Scientist, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation
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Peer Review Process

JMIR Res Protoc is a peer-reviewed journal. We realize that feedback from reviewers will often not lead to changes in protocols because the research is already underway or the protocol cannot be changed by the time of publication. In these cases we ask authors to add a Discussion section and to address reviewer concerns or comments there. Authors submitting already peer-reviewed material (e.g. grant proposals, IRB approvals etc) are strongly advised to upload these external reviews or evidence for approval of the protocol/grant proposal as supplementary file, as this may speed up peer-review. Manuscripts which are already peer-reviewed also benefit from an article processing fee discount.

 

Fees

This journal is an open access journal and relies on fees payable from the authors' research grants or institutions.

Fee Schedule (2013)



Submission fee: $90 (waived for manuscripts transfered from JMIR or other JMIR journals)
Fast-track fee (optional): $450 [decision is made within 3 weeks after submission, publication within 4 weeks after acceptance]
Article Processing Fee (on acceptance only), for internally peer-reviewed protocols*: $950
Article Processing Fee (on acceptance only), for manuscripts requiring external peer-review: $1900

*internally reviewed means that 1-2 editors review the submission and do not send this out to an external reviewer, e.g. for already funded/peer-reviewed protocols where authors include any available peer-review reports as Multimedia Appendix (to be published) or supplementary file (for editors' eyes only) on submission.

 

About JMIR and the Publisher

Vision:
JMIR Publications is the leading ehealth publisher, advancing progress in the health, engineering and social sciences to ultimately help people to live happier and healthier lives using technology.

Mission Statement:
JMIR Publications helps innovators in the health technology space to collaborate and to disseminate their innovations, ideas, and research results to the widest possible audience, in a timely manner, adding value to the quality of the work and adhering to the highest ethical and quality standards.
We achieve this by using the Internet and the latest available technologies as well as by producing conferences and social media, and other innovative knowledge translation products.
We also innovate in the scholarly communication space itself, experimenting with new business models, new models of peer-review and dissemination, and new technologies.

History
JMIR Publications, Inc. is a rapidly growing innovative academic publisher. It builds on the success of JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research), which started in 1998 as a small independent open access project hosted at a university, which subsequently grew into the most influential journal in medical informatics (ranked #1 by Impact Factor by Thomson Reuters for three years, 2011 IF: 4.4) and health services research (ranked #2 by Thomson Reuters for three years). Due to the growth in influence and submissions, and to make the operations more sustainable and professional, the journal was incorporated as company in 2011. Shortly after incorporation, several spin-off journals were launched. Currently, JMIR Publications Inc. publishes the following journals:



Several new journals are in development and will be launched in 2013 or 2014:
o JMIR Medical Informatics
o JMIR Human Factors
o JMIR Medical and Bioengineering
o JMIR Cancer
o JMIR Public Health
o JMIR Bioinformatics
o JMIR Healthcare Improvement

JMIR Publications Inc. also produces and organizes the annual Medicine 2.0(R) World Congress series (http://www.medicine20congress.com), is curator of the Medicine 2.0(R) Social Network (http://medicine20.net), and owns several other trademarks in the health field [e.g. Healthbook(R), http://healthbook.com] and altmetrics area [Twimpact Factor(TM), WebCite(R), http://www.webcitation.org].