JMIR Mental Health

JMIR Mental Health is an open access journal published by JMIR Publications, established in 2014 and the official journal of the Society of Digital Psychiatry, covering digital mental health and internet-based interventions, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.4 and a rank of 20th among 293 psychiatry journals《JMIR 精神健康》（JMIR Mental Health）是（JMIR Publications）的开放获取期刊，2014 年创刊，为（Society of Digital Psychiatry）的官方期刊，涵盖数字精神健康与互联网干预，2025 年影响因子为 7.4，在 293 种精神病学期刊中列第 20 位

Scope

• Internet and mobile interventions for mental health, addictions and behaviour change are the journal's defining subject面向精神健康、成瘾与行为改变的互联网与移动干预是该刊的标志性主题。
• Digital psychiatry and e-mental health are treated as clinical fields, with attention to outcomes and access rather than novelty alone数字精神病学与电子精神健康被视为临床领域，关注结局与可及性而非仅有新意。
• Online counselling and teletherapy, including the therapeutic relationship conducted at a distance, fall within the remit在线咨询与远程治疗（包括远程建立的治疗关系）属于收录范围。
• Clinical informatics in psychiatry and psychology, from electronic records to decision support, is a standing area精神病学与心理学中的临床信息学（从电子病历到决策支持）是常设领域。
• System descriptions and theoretical frameworks are published alongside empirical evaluations, so design work is not excluded系统描述与理论框架与实证评价并列发表，设计类工作因此不被排除。
• Rigorous evaluations, including randomised trials, qualitative studies and mixed methods, are the journal's evidentiary backbone严格评价（含随机试验、质性研究与混合方法）是该刊的证据主干。
• Viewpoint and vision papers are accepted, allowing argument about where digital mental health should go next该刊接受观点与愿景类文章，为数字精神健康下一步走向的论辩留出空间。

History

• The journal was established in 2014 as a sister title to JMIR, the open access e-health journal founded in 1999 by Gunther Eysenbach该刊于 2014 年创刊，是（JMIR）的姊妹刊，后者是由（Gunther Eysenbach）于 1999 年创办的开放获取电子健康期刊。
• It is published by JMIR Publications, based in Toronto, and became the official journal of the Society of Digital Psychiatry该刊由总部在多伦多的（JMIR Publications）出版，并成为（Society of Digital Psychiatry）的官方期刊。
• Publication is fully open access, funded by an article processing charge, with accepted articles deposited in PubMed Central on publication该刊为完全开放获取，经费来自文章处理费，录用文章在发表时即存入（PubMed Central）。
• It is indexed in MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, PsycINFO, DOAJ and the Science Citation Index Expanded, covering both clinical and information science readerships该刊被（MEDLINE）、（PubMed）、（PubMed Central）、（Scopus）、（PsycINFO）、（DOAJ）与（Science Citation Index Expanded）收录，覆盖临床与信息科学两类读者。
• Its impact factor moved from 4.388 in 2021 and 6.332 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2024 and 7.4 in 2025, a steep climb for a title barely a decade old其影响因子由 2021 年的 4.388、2022 年的 6.332 变为 2024 年的 5.8 与 2025 年的 7.4，对一个创刊仅十余年的刊物而言升幅显著。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is John Torous, a psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School who directs the digital psychiatry division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston现任主编为（Harvard Medical School）的精神病学家（John Torous），他在波士顿（Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center）主持数字精神科。
• His own research concerns smartphone sensing, app evaluation and the evidence base for digital mental health tools, which shapes the journal's empirical bent他本人的研究涉及智能手机感知、应用评估与数字精神健康工具的证据基础，这塑造了该刊的实证取向。
• Manuscripts are handled through the publisher's online system, with an editorial board drawn from psychiatry, psychology, clinical informatics and human-computer interaction稿件经出版方的在线系统处理，编委会成员来自精神病学、心理学、临床信息学与人机交互领域。
• The journal runs featured themes and special sections, grouping papers around topics such as behaviour change or digital therapeutics该刊设有专题与特别栏目，把论文按行为改变或数字疗法等主题分组。
• Papers are published continuously rather than held for a print issue, so an accepted article becomes citable within days of acceptance论文以连续方式发表而不等待纸本刊期，因此录用文章在数日内即可被引用。