2025 CiteScore rankings confirm JMIR Publications’ expanding impact

(Toronto, June 10, 2025) JMIR Publications celebrates its remarkable success in the latest Scopus CiteScore rankings. Providing a current view of journal impact, CiteScore uses Scopus data spanning 2021 to 2024. A total of 26 JMIR Publications’ journals have been awarded a CiteScore this year, demonstrating the exceptional research quality across its portfolio. This accomplishment reinforces the organization’s dedication to progressing the digital health domain.

A Closer Look at the CiteScore Results: 

• First quartile performance: 12 journals ranked within the first quartile (Q1) in their fields, of which 6 journals ranked in the top 10% of their subject categories. The list of journals with a Q1 ranking includes:

  • Journal of Medical Internet Research (Q1 92%, 12/153 in Health Informatics)

  • JMIR Medical Education (Q1 97%, 46/1620 in Education)

  • JMIR Serious Games (Q1 97%, 4/165 in Rehabilitation)

  • JMIR Mental Health (Q1 93%, 35/580 in Psychiatry and Mental Health)

  • JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (Q1 93%, 11/165 in Rehabilitation)

  • JMIR mHealth and uHealth (Q1 91%, 13/153 in Health Informatics)

  • JMIR Aging (Q1 89%, 39/376 in Health [social science])

  • JMIR Infodemiology (Q1 87%, 39/320 in Health Policy)

  • JMIR Nursing (Q1 86%, 20/143 in General Nursing)

  • JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (Q1 84%, 110/687 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health)

  • JMIR Medical Informatics (Q1 79%, 32/153 in Health Informatics)

  • JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting (Q1 77%, 76/342 in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health)

• First-time scores: 3 journals achieved their first-ever CiteScore, a significant milestone for the dedicated teams of respective journals. Congratulations to JMIR AI, JMIR Biomedical Engineering, and the Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. JMIR AI in particular earned a Q2 ranking from the outset.

• Year-over-year growth: 16 journals saw their CiteScore increase year over year, with some journals seeing an increase in their quartile rankings:

  • JMIR Perioperative Medicine (Q2 73%, 25/91 in Health Professions [miscellaneous])

  • Asian Pacific Island Nursing Journal (Q2 68%, 3/8 in General Nursing)

  • JMIR Diabetes (Q2 57%, 27/63 in Health Information Management)

JMIR Publications’ outstanding CiteScore performance underscores its leadership in digital health, driven by an unwavering commitment to high-quality, impactful research. “Seeing our portfolio grow to 26 ranked journals, while maintaining a dozen in the top quartile, is a direct result of the high-caliber research our community produces. Our mission-driven staff and editors, alongside our dedicated authors, reviewers, and partners, are key to our journals' influential positions,” said Tiffany I Leung, MPH, MD, FAMIA, scientific editorial director of JMIR Publications. “We’re grateful for their shared commitment to advancing open science in health and medicine.”

Although CiteScore can be one citation-based approach to measuring impact, JMIR Publications recommends that authors and other parties consider alternative metrics, in combination with CiteScore, when assessing a journal’s standing and impact. While proud of its CiteScore rankings, JMIR Publications discourages misuse of citation-based impact scores and emphasizes the overall impact of each journal in its field, rather than individual article citation counts.

 

About JMIR Publications:

JMIR Publications is a leading open access publisher of digital health research and a champion of open science. With a focus on author advocacy and research amplification, JMIR Publications partners with researchers to advance their careers and maximize the impact of their work. As a technology organization with publishing at its core, we provide innovative tools and resources that go beyond traditional publishing, supporting researchers at every step of the dissemination process. Our portfolio features a range of peer-reviewed journals, including the renowned Journal of Medical Internet Research.

 

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