I am stilly shaken and thrilled around yesterdays’ considerable newsflash: The Open Access issuance Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR), which I created 10 years ago, has for the nonce established itself as THE marvellous peer-reviewed list in the aficionado of ehealth, or as I be partial to to lay it, for the prosperity of health and healthfulness unsettle in the Internet age. Yesterday, on June 19th, 2009, the Impact Factor rankings for the prosperity of 2008 were published around Thomson Reuters (Impact Factors are the most earthly metric for the prosperity of the encourage of a list, reflecting the daily multitude of citations to up to date articles). The Impact Factor for the prosperity of JMIR in 2008 is for the nonce an surprising 3.6 (up from 3.0 at year, and 2.9 the year before). This has to be seen against the well-defined of the limelight that medical informatics journals are typically not cited unequivocally in fine and father regular encourage factors between 1-2.
Perhaps the biggest newsflash strictly to its dangerous symbolic value is that JMIR is for the nonce the high point, multitude an individual ranked list in its instil, and has in creditable officially overtaken JAMIA, the sober Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2008 IF 3.4), which has been on the #1 spatter in this instil for the prosperity of decades. AMIA is to all intents the most leading scientifc brotherhood in the medical informatics aficionado, and its list JAMIA enjoys meritorious approval around the intimacy. For a unimaginative, independently, low-budget list this is a prime accomplishment and the shadow of a doubt a David vs Goliath berth.
JAMIA is owned and published around Elsevier. I may be wicked on this (leave a perceive!), but to my knowing this is the marvellous stretch in account that an unrestricted Open Access list takes the high point spatter in its instil, overtaking the long-term high point list in a JCR (Journal Citation Reports) heading. I am surprised around this myself – I would father not in a million years expectation that JMIR could gone and forgotten the worshipped JAMIA in terms of encourage. JMIR is for the nonce ranked the high point (#1) list in the medical informatics heading (out of 20 journals), and alternate (#2) in the healthfulness sciences & services heading (out of 62 journals), around Impact Factor. I have knowing of that the Impact Factor has its problems as a metric, but Impact Factors extend to be a valuable well-intentioned of a journal’s je sais quoi for the prosperity of authors, librarians and societies, and the dangerous encourage of JMIR sends a exonerated information to accustomed publishers as in fine as to societies in terms of what Open Access publishing means for the prosperity of encourage.
For promote put out seehttp://www.jmir.org/announcement/view/24I desire to appreciation all readers, supporters, authors, reviewers, and editors for the prosperity of their promote and/or analysis squeeze in they’ve lay into the list. The supplemental high point leaning in the aficionado means that we thinks fitting be getting compensate more submissions, and that I thinks fitting need compensate more grant a clean pair off of heels. I appreciation notably those who father entranced on associate reviser / sector editor responsibilities, actively guiding papers thoroughly the peer-review get wherewithal a waiting (published JMIR papers report to the sector reviser at the foot of each article).
Please acquaintance me if have knowing of of any individuals who capacity be passive to bear on analysis responsibilities. JMIR is continously seeking more scholastic sector editors. For those healthfulness informatics researchers at Medinfo2010 in South-Africa next year, we thinks fitting be holding an analysis break bread conclave to about crucial issues.