JMIR Publications has announced that JMIRx Med has been accepted and indexed—as the first preprint overlay journal—in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ applies strict criteria to review and index open access journals, which include licensing and copyright criteria, quality control processes, journal website technical and usability setups, and editorial evaluation.
JMIRx Med is an innovative preprint overlay journal for medRxiv and JMIR Preprints. Conceived to address the urgent need to make highly relevant scientific information available as early as possible without losing the quality of the peer review process, JMIRx Med is the first in a new series of “superjournals” from JMIR Publications. Superjournals (a type of "overlay" journal) sit on top of preprint servers offering peer review and everything else a traditional scholarly journal does.
Accepted papers are published along with the related peer review reports and the authors’ responses to these peer review reports, providing an additional layer of transparency within the scholarly publishing process.
JMIRx Med and all JMIRx journals are diamond journals, funded by institutions and research funding agencies through Plan P, a framework and platform for institutions and funders to promote open science.
DOAJ is used by more than 5000 institutions worldwide, and JMIR Publications is delighted to be featured in this directory. Additional JMIR Publications’ journals indexed in DOAJ include the Journal of Medical Internet Research, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, JMIR Research Protocols, JMIR Human Factors, JMIR Mental Health, JMIR Serious Games, JMIR Medical Informatics, JMIR Formative Research, JMIR Diabetes, JMIR Cancer, JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, JMIR Medical Education, JMIR Aging, JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies, JMIR Cardio, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, JMIR Infodemiology, and the Interactive Journal of Medical Research, as outlined here. Additional journals may currently be under evaluation.
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