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(Toronto, ON, June 19, 2025) JMIR Publications is pleased to announce that JMIR Public Health and Surveillance has received a Journal Impact Factor of 3.9, as published in Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate. This represents an increase over last year. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance is in the first quartile (Q1) in the “Public, Environmental, & Occupational Health” category.
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance maintains a sustained influence in its field, publishing research on the intersection of public health and technology, public health informatics, mass media campaigns, surveillance, participatory epidemiology, and innovation in public health practice. This achievement underscores 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, Travis Sanchez, DVM, MPH, professor of Epidemiology, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health.
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance also recently received a 2024 CiteScore of 6.3, ranking Q1 in the category “Medicine: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health”–the journal’s top-ranked category. 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