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JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

JMIR Publications Inc. · Canada · Est. 1997

ISSN2369-2960eISSN2369-2960

SJR Q1✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

1.358

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.087

Total Worksi

1,970

Total Citationsi

44,775

2yr Mean Citednessi

3.81

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Health Informatics; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

General Information

Country / RegionCanada

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1997

FrequencyBiannual

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,970

Publisher OrgJMIR Publications

OA Since2014

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer ReviewSingle-blind

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Plagiarism Detection✗ No

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

JMIR Publications Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2369-2960 / 2369-2960

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed

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Peer review process documented?

Single-blind

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

✅

Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

2.5k

2019

224

17k

2020

262

6.6k

2021

203

3.4k

2022

262

4.1k

2023

378

2.8k

2024

201

532

2025

116

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Health InformaticsQ1

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Scopus Categories

Health InformaticsPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Data-Driven Disease SurveillanceCOVID-19 epidemiological studiesHIV/AIDS Research and InterventionsVaccine Coverage and HesitancyCOVID-19 and Mental HealthHealth Literacy and Information AccessibilityMobile Health and mHealth ApplicationsSocial Media in Health EducationHIV, Drug Use, Sexual RiskCOVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing

Frequently asked questions about JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Is JMIR Public Health and Surveillance a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for JMIR Public Health and Surveillance: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of JMIR Public Health and Surveillance?

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 3.81.

Is JMIR Public Health and Surveillance indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ.

What is the aims and scope of JMIR Public Health and Surveillance?