About the Journal

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.