JMIR Publications is happy to announce that JMIR Biomedical Engineering has been accepted and indexed with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The 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.

JMIR Biomedical Engineering (JBME) is an open access sister journal of JMIR (the leading open-access journal in health informatics), focusing on the application of engineering principles, technologies, and medical devices to medicine and biology. JBME publishes original research, viewpoints, and reviews and is read by clinicians and patients alike and has a focus on readable and applied science reporting the design and evaluation of health innovations and emerging technologies.

Additional JMIR Publications’ journals indexed/accepted in DOAJ include: 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 and the Interactive Journal of Medical Research. Additional journals may currently be under evaluation. DOAJ is used by more than 5000 institutions worldwide, and JMIR Publications is delighted to be a part of this directory. To review all JMIR Publication journals included in the DOAJ, click here.

About DOAJ

The DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. Today, this independent database contains over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language.

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