Nursing Journal Report: Analysis of Five Health Informatics Journals

This report provides an overview of five health informatics journals: Health Informatics Journal, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, and JMIR Publications. Each journal is described in terms of its scope, target audience (including healthcare professionals, researchers, and policymakers), and the types of research it publishes (including e-health, electronic patient records, clinical decision-making, biomedical science, and emerging technologies). The report highlights key aspects such as the journals' focus on peer-reviewed articles, open access policies, impact factors, and specific areas of interest like mHealth, data mining, and healthcare IT security. The analysis aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of these journals for those interested in the field of health informatics and related areas.

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Journal 1
Name
Health Informatics Journal
Website link
https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/jhi
Description of the Journal
It is a international peer-reviewed journal. All the scientific articles submitted to this
journal are subject to peer review by an esteemed editorial board. The journal operates
through conventional double-blind reviewing policy. The journal is operated by The British
Medical Informatics Society.
Target audience
The main target audience is the health professors, healthcare engineers and computer
science students and bioinformatics students or scholars.
Type of research published
The editor of the journal is keen on receiving submissions on any subject relevant to
healthcare informatics. The contributions are mainly accepted or encouraged in the domain of
e-health and electronic patient records. Other types of research published in this journal
include knowledge management, data and text mining. The journal also accepts articles on ;
healthcare applications of mobile (mhealth), support for clinical decision-making, pervasive
digital technologies and evidence-based practice. Telecare and telehealth services also fins
space in this journal. Security, confidentiality, evaluation and use of healthcare IT, barriers
and enablers of design, adoption and development along with future innovations in healthcare
technologies and applications are also some of the domains of this journal.

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Journal 2
Name
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Website link
https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/
Description of the Journal
An open access journal publishes original peer-reviewed research articles.
Target audience
The target audience is the scholars and administrators who are working on health-
informatics ground.
Type of research published
Design, development, implementation and of health care informatics is the main
interest of this journal. Other areas include use, evaluation of health information technologies
and decision-making for human health through health informatics.

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Journal 3
Name
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Website link
https://academic.oup.com/jamia
Description of the Journal
The impact factor of the journal is 4.270. It accepts peered reviewed articles. It has
average time from submission of the article from the first decision is 26 days with an average
reviewer turnaround time of 12 days.
Target audience
The main target audiences are the scholars and the scientists working on consumers’
health and informatics and translational science. Other audience include policy makers on
public health.
Type of research published
The types of research that are published in this journal include research in health
informatics that aims to improve the safety of the patients, reducing in the healthcare costs
and increase in the effectiveness of overall process of healthcare. It also covers research
articles on biomedical science.

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Journal 4
Name
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Website link
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Description of the Journal
It is an open access mirror Journal of Biomedical Informatics: X that shares same
aims, editorial team and scope along with same submission system.
Target audience
The main target audience is the scholars and the researchers of the computer science
in the domain of health-informatics. The other target audience include the policy makers of
health and the hospital administrators or the auditors who work on the implementation of
health informatics.
Type of research published
The main research published in this journal includes application of signal processing
in human body, image analysis, biomedical engineering and health informatics.

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Journal 5
Name
JMIR Publications
Website link
https://jmirpublications.com/#about
Description of the Journal
It is a leading e-health publisher. It was founded on 1999 and is regarded as the first
open access journal in health-informatics. It is regarded as the international peered reviewed
journal. The focus of journal on the e-Health makes it further unique in the domain of the
medical or medical health informatics journal. The papers submitted in this journal goes
through a number of cross-check by several reviewers. The submitted articles are mainly
subject to rigorous yet speedy peer review process that do not delays the submission but at
the same time helps to retain the quality of the paper.
Target audience
The target audiences are those who are working and doing research in the emerging
technologies in health, medicine, and biomedical research. The journal also focuses on the e-
health and m-health policy makers and the researchers who are working on highly
interdisciplinary field of medical science.
Type of research published
The research published in this journal is not limited to the inter-disciplinary field of
medical science. It also welcomes and accepts papers from the scholars who have conducted
their research in computer science, behavioral, social and communication sciences and
psychology. Other unique scholarly article published by this journal includes library sciences,

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health-informatics, papers in human-computer interaction studies, and other related fields.
Apart from this, the journal also publish articles in the domain of cybermetrics, security and
confidentiality in healthcare, internet demographics, digital imaging, multimedia in
healthcare, health care records, high-speed networks in medical science, tele-communication,
electronic publishing and software development.

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References
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. (2019). About. Access date: 10th April
2019. Retrieved from: https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/
Health Informatics Journal. (2019). About. Access date: 10th April 2019. Retrieved from:
https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/jhi
JMIR Publications. (2019). Editorial policies. Access date: 10th April 2019. Retrieved from:
https://jmirpublications.com/#about
Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2019). About. Access date: 10th April 2019. Retrieved
from: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2019). About. Access date: 10th
April 2019. Retrieved from: https://academic.oup.com/jamia