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(Toronto, ON, June 19, 2025) JMIR Publications is pleased to announce that JMIR Mental Health has received a Journal Impact Factor of 5.8, as published in Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate. This represents an increase over last year. JMIR Mental Health ranks in the first quartile (Q1) within the “Psychiatry” category, continuing to rise in rank year-over-year (ranked #25 of 288, 91st percentile).
This significant achievement highlights the sustained influence and growing importance of research in internet interventions and digital innovations for mental health and behavior change.This reinforces the journal’s role as a key platform for advancing knowledge in this critical field, underscoring the collective commitments and contributions of authors, peer reviewers, editors, and journal staff, along with the dedicated leadership of the journal’s editor in chief, John Torous, MD, MBI, director of the Digital Psychiatry Division in the Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and co-founder of the Society of Digital Psychiatry.
Here is a selection of the top-cited articles in JMIR Mental Health as recognized in the Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate:
- Lehtimaki S, Martic J, Wahl B, Foster KT, Schwalbe N. Evidence on Digital Mental Health Interventions for Adolescents and Young People: Systematic Overview. JMIR Ment Health 2021;8(4):e25847 (doi: 10.2196/25847)
- Philippe TJ, Sikder N, Jackson A, Koblanski ME, Liow E, Pilarinos A, Vasarhelyi K. Digital Health Interventions for Delivery of Mental Health Care: Systematic and Comprehensive Meta-Review. JMIR Ment Health 2022;9(5):e35159 (doi: 10.2196/35159)
- Shannon H, Bush K, Villeneuve PJ, Hellemans KG, Guimond S. Problematic Social Media Use in Adolescents and Young Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JMIR Ment Health 2022;9(4):e33450 (doi: 10.2196/33450)
JMIR Mental Health also recently received a 2024 CiteScore of 10.2, ranking Q1 (#38 of 580, 93rd percentile) in the category, Medicine: Psychiatry and Mental Health. CiteScore is a 4-year average of citations, based on Elsevier Scopus data.
To view a full list of JMIR Publications journals with a Journal Impact Factor, please visit the website.
JMIR Publications recommends that authors and other parties consider alternative metrics, in combination with Journal Impact Factor, when assessing a journal’s standing and impact. While proud of its Journal Impact Factor rankings, JMIR Publications discourages misuse of citation-based impact scores.
Source: Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate