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Editorial Policies

Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

JMIR Mental Health (Impact Factor 4.8, Editor-in-Chief: John Torous, MD, MBI) is a premier, open-access, peer-reviewed journal indexed in PubMed Central and PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Sherpa/Romeo, DOAJ, EBSCO/EBSCO Essentials, ESCI, PsycINFO, CABI and SCIE.

JMIR Mental Health has a unique focus on digital health and Internet/mobile interventions, technologies, and electronic innovations (software and hardware) for mental health, addictions, online counseling, and behavior change. This includes formative evaluation and system descriptions, theoretical papers, review papers, viewpoint/vision papers, and rigorous evaluations related to digital psychiatry, e-mental health, and clinical informatics in psychiatry/psychology.

The main themes/topics covered by this journal can be found here.

JMIR Mental Health has an international author and readership and welcomes submissions from around the world.

Section Policies

General Articles not fitting into any other categories* (submission category only, change category prior to publication)

Submission category only for papers that do not fit any other category - change category prior to publication

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Editorial

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Substance Abuse

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Depression and Mood Disorders; Suicide Prevention

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Bipolar Disorders

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Smoking Cessation

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Behavior Change

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Viewpoints and Opinions on Mental Health

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Theory and Frameworks in Mental Health

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Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research

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Dementia and Cognitive Decline

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Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism Prevention and Recovery

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Psychotic Disorders

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Mobile Health in Psychiatry

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Reviews in Digital Mental Health

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Innovations in Mental Health Systems

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Users' and Patients' Needs for Mental Health Services

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Technology in Psychiatry/Clinical Psychology Training and Education

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD)

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Problematic Internet Use, Online Gambling and Game Addiction

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Couple's Therapy and Relationship Counseling

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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Gender Dysphoria and Transgender Issue

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Eating Disorders

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Anxiety and Stress Disorders

The following are some common forms of anxiety with their associated ICD-9-CM code:• Generalized anxiety disorder (300.02) — involves six months of persistent, excessive, and unrealistic worry.• Panic disorder (300.01) — may have a sudden onset causing apprehension, fear, or terror. Physical symptoms may include shortness of breath, heart palpitations, or chest pain, causing a person to think he or she is having a heart attack. If the panic attack is associated with agoraphobia (fear of places or situations where someone feels trapped or helpless), assign code 300.21.• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (300.3) — involves persistent, recurring thoughts/impulses (obsessions) and ritualistic actions (compulsions). This is different than obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (301.4).• Posttraumatic stress disorder (309.81) — occurs after a severe emotional or physical trauma and involves the feeling that the person is reexperiencing this traumatic event.• Acute stress disorder (308.3) — includes similar symptoms to posttraumatic stress disorder but occurs immediately after a traumatic event.• Social phobia (300.23) — a person may experience anxiety when exposed to certain social events and desires to avoid the situation.• Other phobia (300.2x) — anxiety when exposed to a specific object or situation and the desire to avoid it.• Alcohol-induced anxiety (291.89)• Drug-induced anxiety (292.89)• Separation anxiety (309.21) — occurs when a child is separated from his or her parents.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

A disorder characterized by the presence of persistent and recurrent irrational thoughts (obsessions), resulting in marked anxiety and repetitive excessive behaviors (compulsions) as a way to try to decrease that anxiety. (ICD-10 F42)
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Internet Interventions (ISRII delegates) Theme Issue 2014

As in previous years, JMIR will produce a theme issue (e-collections) of the best ISRII papers. For previous examples see for example http://www.jmir.org/themes/41 (ISRII Theme Issue 2012)http://www.jmir.org/themes/130 (ISRII Theme Issue 2013)We have published many papers in the area of Mental Health (see e.g. http://www.jmir.org/themes/64).Reacting to feedback from the ISRII community after we suggested to make JMIR the official journal of ISRII we have recently launched a sister journal, JMIR Mental Health (http://mental.jmir.org/), which currently offers publication free of charge, and which is tailored to the needs of the ISRII community.Another new journal which publishes articles free of charge is JMIR Human Factors (http://humanfactors.jmir.org/) which may be suitable for usability evaluations.JMIR Research Protocols (http://researchprotocols.org) publishes proposals, protocols, and formative/pilot evaluations, and JMIR mHealth (http://mhealth.jmir.org/) and JMIR Serious Games (http://games.jmir.org/) (the latter also has no submission or article processing fees) are further options for papers in these respective areas.Regardless of which journal you choose, it will show up in the ISRII Theme Issue 2014 (as it is an e-collection of papers from various JMIR journals).

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Diagnostic Tools in Mental Health

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Insomnia and Sleep Hygiene

Obtaining healthy sleep is important for both physical and mental health. It can also improve productivity and overall quality of life. Everyone, from children to older adults, can benefit from practicing good sleep habits.

Insomnia is difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, even when a person has the chance to do so. People with insomnia can feel dissatisfied with their sleep and usually experience one or more of the following symptoms: fatigue, low energy, difficulty concentrating, mood disturbances, and decreased performance in work or at school.

Stress and anxiety may cause sleeping problems or make existing problems worse. 

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Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)

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Panic Disorder

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Phobias (e.g. Agoraphobia) other than SAD

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Virtual Reality Interventions in Mental Health

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Consumer Education and Learning for Mental Health

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Mental Health Games

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Intentional Self-Harm

ICD10 X60-X84
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Workaholism (Work Addiction)

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Personal Perspective

Personal perspectives are published free of charge if they are written by a patient (Patient Perspective), or heavily discounted if they are a non-patient personal perspective (APF $350 / 600 words). See Call for Papers at http://mental.jmir.org/announcement/view/127 - Personal perspectives: These outline the opinions and views of leaders in the field (including industry and patients) and offer a forum to share evolving ideas. We welcome in particular the discussion of or personal experiences with new tools, methods, apps, devices, or personal experiences about the role of technology in mental health. We will aim to publish one personal perspective per month and thus expect we will not be able to publish all potential submissions.

Patient Perspectives: In keeping with JMIR’s innovative publishing model and vision, we particularly encourage patients to submit their perspectives on mental health and technology. Patient perspective pieces are sometimes written together with editorial board members or other academics, who may be credited as co-authors.

Editors
  • John Torous
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Transdiagnostic Mental Health Interventions

Transdiagnostic interventions apply the same underlying treatment principles across mental disorders, without tailoring the protocol to specific diagnoses.

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Sleep Monitoring, Sleep Quality, Sleep Disorders

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Mindfulness and Meditation

Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training (Wikipedia). It can be useful for stress reduction, anixiety, depression, relationship problems, addictions or chronic conditions.

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Guest Editorial

Guest editorials will be invited by the editor and feature the perspectives of important researchers, clinicians, policy leaders, and patients.

Editors
  • John Torous
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Interventions and Support for Informal Caregivers of People with Mental Illness

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Homelessness

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Connected Health Conference 2018

$250 discount on the APF for presenters at the Boston Connected Health Conference.

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Special Issue on Video Games for Mental Health

Editors
  • Max Birk, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • John Torous
  • Vero vanden Abeele, KU Leuven
  • Greg Wadley, The University of Melbourne
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Public Information and Campaigns on Mental Health

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Borderline Personality Disorder

"Borderline personality disorder is a mental illness marked by an ongoing pattern of varying moods, self-image, and behavior. These symptoms often result in impulsive actions and problems in relationships. People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that can last from a few hours to days." (NIMH)

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Sexual Addiction (including Cybersex Addiction)

Sexual addiction, also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences. There is considerable debate among the medical community on the validity of this diagnosis, and currently sexual addiction (or cybersex addiction) is not a clinical diagnosis in either the DSM or ICD medical classifications of diseases and medical disorders.

Related: Problematic Internet Use, Online Gambling and Game Addiction

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Intellectual Disabilities

An intellectual disability is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning. It is defined by an IQ under 70 in addition to deficits in two or more adaptive behaviors that affect everyday, general living.

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Discretionary Corrigenda and Addenda ($190)

For corrigenda that are discretionary and a result of author-oversight (e.g. corrections in the affiliation etc) we charge a $190 processing fee to make changes in the original paper and publish an erratum.To request a correction, please submit a correction statement (text similar to http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e76/) as new submission from your author homepage.

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Special Issue 2019: Computing and Mental Health (Guest Editors: Torous, Calvo, Wadley, Wolters)

Editors
  • Rafael Calvo, University of Sydney
  • John Torous
  • Greg Wadley, The University of Melbourne
  • Maria Wolters, Centre for Speech Technology Research, University of Edinburgh
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Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS)

Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS or MUS) are symptoms for which a treating physician or other healthcare providers have found no medical cause, or whose cause remains contested.

Not all medically unexplained symptoms are influenced by identifiable psychological factors. However, in practice, most physicians and authors who use the term consider that the symptoms most likely arise from psychological causes. 

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Happiness

Happiness is used in the context of mental or emotional states, including positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. It is also used in the context of life satisfaction, subjective well-being, eudaimonia, flourishing and well-being. (Wikipedia).

For happiness-promoting interventions also see Depression and Mood Disorders; Suicide Prevention.

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Mental Health Surveillance and Epidemiology

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Risky Sexual Behavior

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Loneliness and Social Isolation

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Theme issue 2019: The Digital Therapeutic Alliance

Theme Issue Guest Editors: Reeva Lederman & Simon D'Alfonso, University of Melbourne.

Call for papers: https://mental.jmir.org/announcement/view/188

Editors
  • Simon D'Alfonso, The University of Melbourne
  • Reeva Lederman
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Telepsychiatry

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Forensic Psychiatry

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Physician and Healthcare Worker Burnout

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Corrigenda and Addenda

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Letters to the editor (and replies from authors)

A letter to the editor must cite and critique or substantially comment on a recent paper published in JMIR Mental Health. The letter will be forwarded to the authors of the cited or critiqued article or other reviewers, and original authors will get a chance to respond. While some new data in a letter are a allowed, a letter is NOT a short research report. See also How do I submit a letter to the editor?

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Knowledge and Attitudes of Mental Health Professionals towards Digital Interventions

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JMH Theme Issue: COVID-19 and Mental Health: Impact and Interventions

Special Theme Issue

Call for papers: https://mental.jmir.org/announcement/view/214

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  • John Torous
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Sexual Dysfunction

Sexual dysfunction includes Hypoactive Sexual Desire Dysfunction (HSDD; formerly hypoactive sexual desire disorder), is a common sexual dysfunction particularly among women.

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E-Collection: Online Dating, Sexual Health Behavior [Section Id: 772]E-Collection: Sexual Addiction (including Cybersex Addiction) [Section Id: 790]

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Industry Perspective

Perspectives and research from (mainly digital) mental health industry leaders

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Affective Computing

Affective computing is a subfield of the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) that studies and develops systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects/emotions.

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Clinical Mental Health Informatics

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Research Letter

Research Letters present new, early, or preliminary research findings. The text should use standard research headings of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion and should be no longer than 750 words, with a maximum of 10 references and 2 tables or figures. The APF for Research Letters accepted after peer review is lower than the standard APF.

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Special Theme Issue 2022 Mental Health Internet Interventions

Submit your paper before Dec 15, 2022, selecting this theme issue (How do I submit to a theme issue?)

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Theme Issue 2023 : Responsible Design, Integration, and Use of Generative AI in Mental Health

Guest Editors

Amir Tal 

Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, and Samueli Foundation Initiative for Responsible AI in Medicine, Tel-Aviv University

amirt2tauex.tau.ac.il

Oren Asman

Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, and Samueli Foundation Initiative for Responsible AI in Medicine, Tel-Aviv University

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mWELL Theme Issue: Affective Computing for Mental Wellbeing

Call for Papers: Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being

Guest Editors: 

Iulia Lefter, PhD, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology

Zakia Hammal, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

David D Luxton, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Washington

Theodora Chaspari, PhD, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

Alice Baird, PhD, Hume AI

Albert Ali Salah, PhD, Professor, Utrecht University and Bogazici University

Marwa Mahmoud, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow

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Commentary

A commentary is published alongside other articles published in JMIR Publications journals. Commentaries are typically invited. Unsolicited commentaries may be considered at the discretion of the editor. They may or may not be peer-reviewed. Articles submitted as a commentary should offer thoughtful criticism of published work, drawing from evidence, expertise, and/or additional perspectives.

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Peer Review Process

When we receive a manuscript, an assessment will be made to ensure the manuscript meets the formal criteria specified in the Instructions for Authors and that it fits within the scope of the journal. When in doubt, the editor will consult other members of the Editorial Board. Manuscripts are then assigned to a Section Editor, who sends it to 2-4 external experts for peer review. Authors are required to suggest at least 2 peer-reviewers (who do not have a conflict of interest) during the submission process.

Peer reviewing is a single-blind process as the reviewers are aware of the names of the authors. Review feedback is anonymous when shared with the authors during the review process. Reviewers for JMIR journals will not stay anonymous as their names appear at the end of the published article. Authors and reviewers should not contact each other directly to discuss manuscripts or reviews.

Speed of Peer-Review

The Internet is a fast-moving field and we acknowledge the need of our authors to communicate their findings rapidly. We therefore aim to be extremely fast (but still thorough and rigorous) in our peer-review process. For example, the paper "Factors Associated with Intended Use of a Web Site Among Family Practice Patients" (J Med Internet Res 2001;3(2):e17) was reviewed, edited, type-set and published within only 16 days. Including the two weeks time authors needed to revise their article, from first submission to final publication less than 1 month passed. (note that current turnaround times needed to review and edit papers vary, and primarily depend on the quality of the paper upon first submission!). Normally we can not give any guarantees on the speed of peer-review or publication - except if a paper has been submitted under the fast-track scheme, where we guarantee an editorial decision within 20 working days (4 weeks) and publication of the article within 4 weeks after acceptance. We aim for an average decision time of 2 months after submission for papers sent out for peer-review. There will however always be outliers (papers which are more difficult to evaluate)

Criteria for Selection of Manuscripts

Manuscripts should meet the following criteria: the study conducted is ethical (see below); the material is original; the writing is clear; the study methods are appropriate; the data are valid; the conclusions are reasonable and supported by the data; the information is important; and the topic is interesting for our readership. It is recognized that many submissions will describe websites and other Internet-based services. The Editorial Board strongly recommends that authors of such submissions make efforts to evaluate and if possible quantify the impact of these services. Submissions containing evaluations are more likely to be accepted than those containing descriptions of services alone, unless the service includes significant innovation. More descriptive papers - ideally with an evaluation plan - can be submitted to JMIR Res Protoc. Formative research, feasibility and pilot studies should be submitted to JMIR Formative Res (see also Publication Strategy article in our Knowledge Base).

Ethical Issues

Internet-based research raises novel questions of ethics and human dignity (see for example KB article on Ethics in Social Media Research). If human subjects are involved, informed consent, protection of privacy and other human rights are further criteria against which the manuscript will be judged. Papers describing investigations on human subjects must include a statement that the study was approved by the institutional review board, in accordance with all applicable regulations, and that informed consent was obtained after the nature and possible consequences of the studies were explained. JMIR is also encouraging articles devoted to the ethics of Internet-based research. In addition, as mentioned in the conflict of interest article, we will ask authors to disclose any competing interests in relation to their work.

For more information on JMIR Publications' ethics policies, please visit our Knowledge Base (KB), here.

Publication Frequency

This journal publishes articles continuously, i.e. articles are published online as soon as they are available (peer-reviewed and copy-edited).

Open Access Policy

All journals published by JMIR Publications provide immediate open access to their content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge and accelerates research. Copyright is retained by the authors, and articles can be freely used and distributed by others. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published by JMIR Publications, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information (authors, title, journal, volume/issue, and article ID), a link to the original publication (URL), and this copyright and license information (“Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution cc-by 4.0”) must be included.

Please do not contact the publisher for “reprint permission” requests because, by default, this permission has already been given by authors (under the condition of attribution of the original source), and the publisher does NOT own the copyright for the material published. The authors retain the copyright, unless stated otherwise.

Author Self-Archiving

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post items submitted to this journal on personal or institutional websites, prior to and after publication (while providing the bibliographic details of that publication).

Archiving

JMH uses LOCKSS and will also be archived in Pubmed Central (application pending). The LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) system ensures a secure and permanent archive for the journal. LOCKSS is open source software developed at Stanford University Library that enables libraries to preserve selected web journals by regularly polling registered journal websites for newly published content and archiving it. Each archive is continually validated against other library caches, and if content is found to be corrupted or lost, the other caches or the journal is used to restore it. More...

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

John Torous, MD, MBI

Director of the Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Harvard Medical School, USA

Dr. Torous is director of the digital psychiatry division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard Medical School affiliated teaching hospital, where he also serves as a staff psychiatrist and academic faculty. He has a background in electrical engineering and computer sciences and received an undergraduate degree in the field from UC Berkeley before attending medical school at UC San Diego. He completed his psychiatry residency, fellowship in clinical informatics, and master's degree in biomedical informatics at Harvard. Dr. Torous is active in investigating the potential of mobile mental health technologies for psychiatry and has published over 75 peer-reviewed articles and 5 book chapters on the topic. He serves as editor-in-chief of JMIR Mental Health, currently leads the American Psychiatric Association's work group on the evaluation of smartphone apps, and is an advisor to the smartphone mood study within the NIH's one million person All of Us research program.

Shruti Kochhar, BPharm, MS, Managing Editor

Editorial Board Members 

Associate Editors

Philip Batterham, PhD

Associate Professor, The Australian National University, Australia

Dr. Batterham is a Professor and Co-Head of the Centre for Mental Health Research at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. His research interests are in trialing and implementing digital programs to prevent suicide and mental health problems, detecting mental ill health in the community, and reducing barriers to care. His training is in psychology, biostatistics, and population mental health. 

Nicole Benson, MD

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Nicole M. Benson, MD, MBI is a child and adult psychiatrist and mental health services researcher. After completing a clinical informatics fellowship, she assumed her roles as the Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at McLean Hospital and the Medical Director for Digital Solutions for Behavioral and Mental Health at Mass General Brigham. She is interested in the use of technology in psychiatric care. Her research involves integrating insurance claims datasets with electronic health records to study the way children and young adults access and receive mental health care.

Tanvi Ranjan, PhD

Research Scientist, Meta Reality Labs, USA

Tanvi Ranjan has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Neuroscience from Harvard University. Dr. Ranjan's research focuses on neuromotor control and interfaces, along with mental health technology. She specializes in neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on the utilization of technology in mental health. She also has expertise in designing state-of-the-art brain-machine interfaces.

Gillian Strudwick, RN, PhD

Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada

Associate Professor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Canada

Gillian Strudwick is a Registered Nurse, holding the positions of Chief Clinical Informatics Officer and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is also an Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. Dr. Strudwick serves as a board member for AMS Healthcare and the Village Family Health Team. She is a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing.

Henry Onyeaka, MD, MPH

Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, USA

Dr. Onyeaka is a resident psychiatrist and is currently the chief resident of addiction psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, both Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospitals, where he also serves as a teaching fellow. He completed his undergraduate degree and medical education from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science of Technology and then subsequently completed a master's degree in public health with a focus on quantitative methods at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Onyeaka is passionate and active in investigating the role of digital tools and technologies for psychiatry, substance use disorders, and chronic diseases, and has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on the topic.

Christian G. Huber, PD, MD

Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Universität Basel, Switzerland

Christian Huber is a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Universität Basel, Switzerland, and a head of the department at the Adult Psychiatry Clinic, Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken (UPK) Basel, Switzerland. At UPK Basel, he is in charge of the Department of Psychotic Disorders and the Hometreatment Team. His scientific interests are focused on translational research and rooted in clinical psychiatry, social psychiatry, and health services research, covering schizophrenia spectrum disorders, agitation and aggression, compulsory measures in psychiatry, stigmatization, early detection and treatment of psychiatric disorders, and psychodiagnostics.

David Gratzer, MD

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada

Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Canada

David Gratzer is an attending psychiatrist at CAMH and serves as the co-chief of the General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems Division. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He has published in the area of technology and therapy, including in CMAJ, and has presented research findings at major conferences. He is an Associate Editor of The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry and an Editorial Board member of The British Journal of Psychiatry. His research interests include mental health service delivery and the use of technology. He blogs at davidgratzer.com.

Max Birk, PhD

Assistant Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Max Birk is an Assistant Professor for Interactive Media in Preventive Health in the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology. With an interdisciplinary background, Max draws from psychology, interaction design, data science, and game design to investigate the effects of game-based design strategies on mental processes and design-induced behaviour change. His research contributes to game user research, digital health, and motivational interface design. He is interested in projects that contribute to a healthy society, improve entertainment experiences, and develop tools and methods for researching interactive experiences. 

Nur Hani Zainal, PhD

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Harvard Medical School, USA

Dr. Hani is a postdoctoral research associate at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University and completed her predoctoral clinical fellowship at the HMS-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) - Cognitive Behavioral Scientist Track. Her research interest focuses on how executive functioning, social cognition, and cognitive-behavioral strategies link to the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders. She is also interested in technology-facilitated interventions and psychoneuroimmunology. To achieve these aims, she uses a variety of approaches and datasets. These include cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys, basic science experiments, ecological momentary assessments, and prospective cross-panel designs.

Charlotte Blease, PhD

Associate Professor (Docent) and Healthcare Researcher, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dr Charlotte Blease is a philosopher and interdisciplinary healthcare researcher at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Research Affiliate at Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Boston, USA. Prior to this she was based at Harvard Medical School for five years and has held academic posts in the UK, Ireland, and Germany.Blease has a diverse publication portfolio of more than 120 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters ranging across digital health, clinical ethics, philosophy of medicine, and psychology. Among her research expertise is assessing patient online record access and surveys on clinicians’ views about the impact of artificial intelligence on their jobs. Next year, her co-edited book on the “Nocebo Effect” will be published (Mayo Clinic Press). She is also writing a book about the psychology of the medical appointment, and the potential for artificial intelligence to help address inherent human limitations with delivering healthcare (YaleUniversity Press).

Stephen Schueller, PhD

Associate Professor, University of California Irvine, USA

Stephen Schueller is an Associate Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside, and his Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco as part of the Public Service and Minority Cluster. At the broadest level Dr. Schueller’s work aims to improve access to and knowledge about effective and scalable mental health treatments. Much of this work has focus on leveraging technology to improve access to and accessibility of mental health services. This work lies at the intersection of clinical science, implementation science, and human-computer interaction. In his research Dr. Schueller develops, evaluates, and implements digital mental health assessments and interventions including Internet websites, mobile apps, and wearable devices.

Gemma Sharp, PhD

Associate Professor, Monash University, Australia

Dr Gemma Sharp leads Body Image & Eating Disorders Research in the Department of Neuroscience at Monash University. She is currently an NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow (2023-2027) and a former NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow (2018-2022). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology (University of Adelaide), Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Microbiology and Immunology (University of Adelaide), a Masters degree in Oncology (University of Cambridge), a Diploma in Languages in Japanese (University of Adelaide), a Graduate Diploma in Psychology (University of Adelaide), a Bachelor of Behavioural Sciences Honours degree in Psychology (Flinders University) and a PhD in Clinical Psychology (Flinders University). Her research career in both Medical Science and Mental Health has seen her study and work in Australia, Japan and the UK. 

Laura D’Adamo, MS

Doctoral Student, Drexel University, USA

Laura D’Adamo is a clinical psychology doctoral student at Drexel University. Her research interests focus on developing and optimizing digital programs to detect and address mental health problems. Her work also investigates strategies for implementing evidence-based digital mental health programs to increase access to care.

Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD

Director of Clinical Operations, LIBR; Associate Professor, University of Tulsa, USA

Dr. Khalsa is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose research investigates the role of interoception and digital psychiatry in mental and physical health. His studies utilize a variety of approaches to including pharmacological and non-pharmacological techniques, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), computational modeling, and digital applications for graphically mapping body perception and psychosocial history.

Ashley Knapp, PhD

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, USA

Dr. Knapp's research is focused on youth digital mental health broadly, with a particular interest in designing and implementing accessible, community-based digital tools with marginalized youth and those youth most experiencing inequities. She is currently supported by a NIMH-funded K01 award, where she has partnered with a local public library and their teen patrons to adapt a digital mental health service for anxiety to be implemented into the public library’s teen services.

Emma Morton, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia

Dr. Morton’s research aims to optimize the quality of life of individuals living with mood disorders, with particular emphasis on bipolar spectrum disorders. Three intersecting research streams inform this program: 1) Measuring and predicting patient-valued outcomes in mood disorders, 2) Developing and evaluating psychological interventions for mood disorders, and 3) Improving access to and delivery of psychological interventions. Dr. Morton is recognised as an emerging leader in mood disorders research: she was awarded the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance Gerald L. Klerman Young Investigator Award, and the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Samuel Gershon Junior Investigator Award.

Jessica M. Lipschitz, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA

Jessica M. Lipschitz earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Rhode Island. She isthe Associate Director of the Digital Behavioral Health & Informatics Research Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on evaluation and implementation of digital behavioral health tools and she has specific clinical expertise in evidence-based treatment of anxiety, depression, PTSD and relationship problems. Dr. Lipschitz has worked extensively with the VA on national digital health rollout initiatives and has consulted and conducted research in partnership with industry aimed at optimizing and implementing digital health solutions for behavioral health.

Kelila Kahane, MD

Resident Physician, BIDMC - Harvard Medical School, USA

Kelila Kahane is a resident physician in psychiatry at Harvard-BIDMC and a clinical fellow in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She completed her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University and MD at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, both in New York City. Dr. Kahane has a background in public health and received her MPH from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Kahane directed a digital health literacy program for mental health patients in New York City with a grant from the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Kahane is interested in how innovation might improve quality of care and address healthcare delivery challenges. Her research focuses on digital health policy and regulation, digital literacy, and child mental health.

Andrew Lustig, MD

Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada

Dr. Lustig is a general adult inpatient psychiatrist who practices psychiatric emergency medicine, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry. His research interests include discourse analysis of online discourse pertaining to mental health and addictions.

Shufang Sun, PhD

Assistant Professor, Brown University, USA

Dr. Sun's scholarship is motivated by understanding the role of minority stress (i.e., stigma, discrimination, structural oppression) in health disparities, and developing and evaluating behavioral health-focused, community-centered, and technology-mediated interventions for health promotion with diverse communities in the United States and globally. Her research has been continuously funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) since 2018, with nearly $5.2 million in funds awarded to her as principal investigator (PI). She has been the PI of 9 awards, and co-investigator on 5 additional awards. As of June 2024, her work has been cited over 2,000 times and she has an h-index of 22 and an i10-index of 31.

Brandon Kitay, PhD

Assistant Professor, Emory University, USA

Dr. Kitay is the Director of Behavioral Health Integration Emory Healthcare, an adult outpatient and interventional psychiatrist, and academic faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Emory School of Medicine. He has a background in advanced therapeutics and clinical trials for treatment refractory psychiatric conditions and applied expertise in the implementation of integrated behavioral health service models. His recent work has focused on the potential beneficial impact of digital health infrastructure and therapeutics on population-based care.

Riddhi Pratim Ghosh, PhD

Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, USA

Dr. Riddhi Pratim Ghosh has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A&M University, followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Machine Learning, Network Science, and mobile health. He has published articles in tier-1 statistics and applied journals, such as Bayesian Analysis, Biometrics, and the Journal of Neurotrauma.

Editor-in-Chief

John Torous, MD, MBI, Harvard Medical School, USA

Indexing and Impact Factor

JMIR Mental Health is indexed in PubMed Central and PubMed, MEDLINE, Scopus, Sherpa/Romeo, DOAJ, EBSCO/EBSCO Essentials, ESCI, PsycINFO, CABI, and SCIE.

In 2024, JMIR Mental Health received a Journal Impact Factor™  of 4.8 (5-Year Journal Impact Factor™: 5.1, ranked Q1 #39/276 journals in the category Psychiatry) (Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate)

It also received a CiteScore of 10.8, placing it in the 92nd percentile (#43 of 567) as a Q1 journal in the field of Psychiatry and Mental Health.