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(Toronto, ON, June 19, 2025) JMIR Publications is pleased to announce that JMIR Medical Informatics has received a Journal Impact Factor of 3.8, as published in Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate. This represents an increase over last year and marks the journal’s highest impact factor. JMIR Medical Informatics is in the second quartile (Q2) in the “Medical Informatics” category.
This achievement highlights the increasing influence and importance of research in clinical informatics, decision support for health professionals, electronic health records, and eHealth infrastructures. This milestone reinforces the journal's role as a key platform for advancing knowledge in this critical field. It also underscores the collective commitments and contributions of authors, peer reviewers, editors, and journal staff, along with the dedicated leadership of the journal’s current editor in chief, Arriel Benis, PhD, associate professor and head of the department of Digital Medical Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, and immediate-past editor in chief, Christian Lovis, MD, MPH, FACMI, professor and chairman, Division of Medical Information Sciences, University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), University of Geneva (UNIGE).
Here is a selection of the top-cited articles in JMIR Medical Informatics as recognized in the Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate:
- Ayaz M, Pasha MF, Alzahrani MY, Budiarto R, Stiawan D. The Fast Health Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Standard: Systematic Literature Review of Implementations, Applications, Challenges and Opportunities. JMIR Med Inform 2021;9(7):e21929 (doi: 10.2196/21929)
- Huang J, Galal G, Etemadi M, Vaidyanathan M. Evaluation and Mitigation of Racial Bias in Clinical Machine Learning Models: Scoping Review. JMIR Med Inform 2022;10(5):e36388 (doi: 10.2196/36388)
- Hirosawa T, Kawamura R, Harada Y, Mizuta K, Tokumasu K, Kaji Y, Suzuki T, Shimizu T. ChatGPT-Generated Differential Diagnosis Lists for Complex Case–Derived Clinical Vignettes: Diagnostic Accuracy Evaluation. JMIR Med Inform 2023;11:e48808 (doi: 10.2196/48808)
JMIR Medical Informatics also recently received a 2024 CiteScore of 7.7, ranking Q1 in two categories—Medicine: Health Informatics, and Health Professions: Health Information Management. CiteScore is a 4-year average of citations, based on Elsevier Scopus data.
To view a full list of JMIR Publications journals with a Journal Impact Factor, please visit the website.
JMIR Publications recommends that authors and other parties consider alternative metrics, in combination with Journal Impact Factor, when assessing a journal’s standing and impact. While proud of its Journal Impact Factor rankings, JMIR Publications discourages misuse of citation-based impact scores.
Source: Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate