JMIR Medical Informatics (JMI, ISSN 2291-9694; Journal Impact Factor™ 3.1, Journal Citation Reports™) (Editor-in-chief: Arriel Benis, PhD) is an open-access journal that focuses on the challenges and impacts of clinical informatics, digitalization of care processes, clinical and health data pipelines from acquisition to reuse, including semantics, natural language processing, natural interactions, meaningful analytics and decision support, electronic health records, infrastructures, implementation, and evaluation.

JMIR Medical Informatics disseminates high-quality research and aims to influence the implementation of informatics solutions to improve health care and care systems. Published by JMIR Publications, the journal focuses on applied, translational research, and implementation science with a broad readership, including clinicians, CIOs, engineers, industry, health informatics professionals, patients, and policy-makers. Submissions involving innovative and practical research on data shareability, reusability, and interoperability are encouraged.

JMIR Publications recently launched JMIR Artificial Intelligence (JAI). AI-centered papers with a core focus on applications of AI (see focus and scope) should preferably be submitted to this new journal.

JMIR Medical Informatics adheres to rigorous quality standards, involving a rapid and thorough peer-review process, professional copyediting, and professional production of PDF, XHTML, and XML proofs.

In 2024, JMIR Medical Informatics received a Journal Impact Factor™ of 3.1 (5-Year Journal Impact Factor: 3.5, ranked Q2 #21/44 journals in the category of Medical Informatics) (Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate) and a Scopus CiteScore™ of 7.7 (2024), placing it in the 79th percentile (#32 of 153) as a Q1 journal in the field of Health Informatics.. The journal is indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, DOAJ, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE).

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