Gunther Eysenbach*, Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada Carmen Chu*, JMIR Publications Inc., Hong Kong, Hong Kong Track: Business Presentation Topic: Collaborative biomedical research, academic / scholarly communication, publishing and peer review Presentation Type: Tabletop Demo (Expo Hall) Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2014-11-03

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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 five years, 2013 IF: 4.7) and health services research.
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:

• JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research) (ISSN 1438-8871) http://www.jmir.org
  
• JMIR Research Protocols (ISSN 1929-0748) http://www.researchprotocols.org/
  
• i-JMR (interactive Journal of Medical Research) (ISSN 1929-073X) http://www.i-jmr.org)
  
• Medicine 2.0 (ISSN 1923-2195) http://www.medicine20.com/
  
• JMIR mHealth & uHealth (mobile and ubiquitous health) (ISSN 2291-5222) http://mhealth.jmir.org
  
• JMIR Serious Games (JSG, ISSN 2291-9279) http://games.jmir.org
  
• JMIR Medical Informatics (JMI, ISSN 2291-9694) http://medinform.jmir.org
  
• JMIR Human Factors (JHF, ISSN 2292-9495) http://humanfactors.jmir.org/
  
• JMIR Mental Health (JMH) http://mental.jmir.org/
  

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

For over 10 years, JMIR has been on the forefront of testing and applying Web 2.0 ideas, such as openness (open access, open peer-review) and apomediation in the scholarly communication context. JMIR has also developed novel social media based article level metrics such as the Twimpact™ Factor, which has been found to be able to predict future citations within 3 days of publication based on analysis of Twitter chatter.
Shortly before the Malaga conference, JMIR will launch a major overhaul of its website, featuring responsive design that works on desktops as well as on mobile devices. The new JMIR website features Altmetrics and the TrendMD widget.
The next step in the development will be the launch of profile pages of JMIR authors on the Medicine 2.0 social networking site (medicine20.net), which will be combined and connected with Medicine 2.0 users to further facilitate the creation of a virtual community of ehealth/mhealth scholars and knowledge users.

Stop by at the expo table to learn more about JMIR membership, publishing your work in JMIR or the new JMIR spin-off journals including the new Medicine 2.0 Conference Proceedings journal, future Medicine 2.0 conferences and projects, and the medicine20.net social network.