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Top 10 Medical Informatics Journals by Impact Factor

Compare leading Medical Informatics journals ranked by Journal Impact Factor. Each journal summary highlights key details authors often need when choosing where to submit, including publisher, impact factor, open access status, identifiers, and available submission profile information.

Rankings are based on the latest Journal Impact Factor data currently available in our journal database.

#1
LD
JIF 24.1
Q1
Hybrid

The Lancet Digital Health is a journal focused on digital research in health and medicine. It publishes article types including Articles, Reviews, Comments, and Viewpoints, offers manuscript submission through Editorial Manager, and highlights journal metrics...

Identifiers

eISSN 2589-7500

Publication Cost

Submission is free. An article processing charge is payable upon acceptance for all full-length peer-reviewed article types; discounts and waivers are available.

Publishing Timeline

Fast-track peer review for research articles can lead to online publication within 4–8 weeks.
#2
ND

NATURE PORTFOLIO

JIF 15.1
Q1
Open

npj Digital Medicine is part of the npj Series, published in partnership with Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, and publishes open access research in digital medicine.

Identifiers

ISSN 2398-6352
eISSN 2398-6352

Publication Cost

Article processing charges apply; current APCs and waiver information are available via the journal's open access section.

Publishing Timeline

Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 10; Submission to acceptance (median days): 144
#3
AT

Association for Computing Machinery

JIF 8
Q1
Open

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) is a multi-disciplinary journal for the publication of high-quality original research papers, survey papers, and challenge papers that have scientific and technological results pertaining to how computing i...

Identifiers

ISSN 2691-1957
eISSN 2637-8051

Publication Cost

2026 subsidized APC for journal articles: $1450 for non-members and $950 with at least 1 ACM or SIG member; $725 and $475 respectively for authors from lower-middle-income countries. No charge applies for corresponding authors at participating ACM Open institutions or for institutions in low-income countries.
#4
PD

Public Library of Science

JIF 7.7
Q1
Open

PLOS Digital Health is an online journal focused on digital health research. The journal homepage highlights recently published research articles, current issues, editorial board recruitment, submission links, and journal resources. ISSN: 2767-3170 (online).

Identifiers

eISSN 2767-3170

Publication Cost

PLOS Digital Health: Research Article $3,165; payable upon article acceptance.

Publishing Timeline

Figure formatting requirements are waived until provisional Editorial Accept.
#5
IM
JIF 6.9
Q1
Open

Intelligent Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal sponsored and owned by the Chinese Medical Association that publishes research and applications at the intersection of medicine and industry, including internet technology, artificial intelligence,...

Identifiers

ISSN 2667-1026
eISSN 2667-1026

Publication Cost

Article Publishing Charge: USD 2000 excluding taxes for all articles.

Publishing Timeline

3 days submission to first decision; 112 days submission to acceptance
#6
IJ

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

JIF 6.8
Q1
Hybrid

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics publishes original papers on biomedical and health informatics at the intersection of information and communication technologies with health, healthcare, life sciences, and biomedicine, including theoretical an...

Identifiers

ISSN 2168-2194
eISSN 2168-2208

Publication Cost

No cost for standard publishing; open access APC: $2,800 USD.

Publishing Timeline

IEEE Access reports a submission-to-publication time of 4 to 6 weeks.
#7
AI
JIF 6.2
Q1
Hybrid

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine publishes original articles from interdisciplinary perspectives on the theory and practice of artificial intelligence in medicine, medically-oriented human biology, and health care. The journal emphasizes manuscripts with st...

Identifiers

ISSN 0933-3657
eISSN 1873-2860

Publication Cost

Open Access APC: USD 3,310 (excluding taxes); subscription: no publication fee charged to authors

Publishing Timeline

12 days submission to first decision; 147 days submission to decision after review; 303 days submission to acceptance; 7 days from acceptance to first online publication
#8
JM

JMIR Publications

JIF 6.2
Q1
Open

JMIR mHealth and uHealth is a peer-reviewed journal published since 2013 by JMIR Publications. It focuses on health and biomedical applications in mobile and tablet computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, and domotics, and emphasizes...

Identifiers

ISSN 2291-5222
eISSN 2291-5222

Publication Cost

Article Processing Fee with a 20% discount for authors who previously published a protocol in JMIR Research Protocols and later publish a results paper in a JMIR journal

Publishing Timeline

rapid and thorough peer-review process
#9
JO
JIF 6
Q1
Open

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) is the pioneer open access eHealth journal and the flagship journal of JMIR Publications. It focuses on emerging technologies, medical devices, apps, engineering, telehealth, and informatics applications for pati...

Identifiers

ISSN 1438-8871

Publication Cost

Authors who have published a protocol in JMIR Research Protocols get a discount of 20% on the Article Processing Fee when publishing a subsequent results paper in any JMIR journal.

Publishing Timeline

Standard review time is less than 2 months; fast-tracked papers aim for 4 weeks from submission to initial decision.
#10
JO

Springer Science+Business Media

JIF 5.7
Q1
Hybrid

The Journal of Medical Systems focuses on how health information systems are built, evaluated, and used, including decision support, electronic health record-driven analytics, mHealth and consumer tools, workflow engineering and simulation, imaging and signal...

Identifiers

ISSN 0148-5598
eISSN 1573-689X

Publication Cost

Article processing charges (APCs) vary by journal.
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