The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has created powerful new instructional opportunities alongside major pedagogical questions. While tools like ChatGPT can enhance lesson planning, case scenario design, and assessment development, many medical educators face a steep learning curve. Without structured guidance, integrating these fast-evolving and context-sensitive tools into high-stakes, discipline-specific medical curricula carries significant risks.

Public health emergencies demand synthesized evidence rapidly. During COVID-19, Ebola outbreaks, and other crises, researchers face pressure to produce guidance within the first week hours, for example, to prevent further spread of infections in the community. Meanwhile, traditional systematic reviews require 6 to 18 months to complete. This temporal mismatch creates an evidence vacuum that decision-makers often fill with preliminary findings or incomplete data.

Artificial intelligence is fast becoming the digital front door of modern medicine. In the face of overwhelming patient demand, healthcare systems are rapidly deploying AI-enabled triage tools to sort symptoms, assess risk, and route patients before they ever step into a clinic.

At JMIR Publications, we believe that choosing the right journal is one of the most critical steps in a researcher’s journey. For over two decades, we have supported open-science frameworks that provide diverse, reliable pathways to measure a paper’s reach and community impact.

Exposure to natural environments is well documented to improve attention, reduce stress, and enhance psychological well-being. While virtual reality (VR) offers a portable, scalable way to simulate natural settings for urban or isolated populations, it remains unclear whether a virtual forest engages the brain and cognitive networks in the same way as the real world.

Open-access publishing is built on a promise: research funded by the public should be freely available to the public. A sweeping new proposal from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) threatens to break that promise by fundamentally rewriting how federal grants are awarded, managed, and published.

As someone with aging parents living on the other side of the country, I am constantly on the lookout for ways to help them maintain their independence, health, and happiness from afar. Fortunately, I work for a digital health publisher, so I have been reading some incredible research exploring potential solutions for their lives, specifically at the intersection of physical fitness, wearable technology, and urban design.

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a dedicated time to focus on our cognitive well-being. To conclude our special blog series for this awareness month, JMIR Publications is looking at how proactive digital strategies can drastically reshape the trajectory of cognitive decline. In this final installment, we highlight groundbreaking research published in JMIR Aging that explores how modern innovations in artificial intelligence can analyze subtle speech and voice patterns. Discover how these pocket-sized acoustic biomarkers are paving the way for early cognitive tracking, allowing individuals to proactively monitor, support, and manage their brain health right from home.

June is Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a dedicated time to focus on our cognitive well-being. As part of our special coverage for this awareness month, we are focusing on the power of early prevention by highlighting recent research published in JMIR Research Protocols. While progressive neurological diseases are deeply complex, proactive strategies initiated early in life can profoundly impact your brain health. In this installment, we look at DementiaRisk, an award-winning digital education platform developed by researchers at McMaster University, designed to bridge critical knowledge gaps and turn evidence-based risk reduction into manageable daily habits.

Clarivate has released Journal Citation Reports 2026, including 2025 Journal Impact Factor results for 24 JMIR Publications journals. Of these, 12 ranked in the first quartile of their primary subject categories, 3 received a Journal Impact Factor for the first time, and 5 improved their quartile ranking over the prior year.