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JMIR Theme Issue Proposal Form

To suggest a theme issue (also called e-collection), please fill out this form and submit it.

Please provide an outline of the scope/context of the theme issue
Theme issues are in fact e-collections that may span papers published across a range of journals, although usually there is one main target journal for each theme issue. For the main target journal (where the call for papers will be published, if any), select a JMIR journal that is closest to the topic. Do not choose by "impact factor". As theme issues are in fact e-collections, high priority papers can be cascaded to the top journals within the JMIR family, while for example formative papers or protocols can be transferred to JMIR Research Protocols.
How will authors be solicited?*
Provide further details if invite only or combination of both
Guest Editor Role*
You can decide between handling the papers as an active guest "section" editor (including assigning reviewers and making decisions) or you can be an "acquisition editor" only, meaning that you just solicit the article submissions but leave the peer-review and decision-making to JMIR staff editors (you will still be credited as guest editor, but can leave the peer-review/decision making to them). The former is preferred.
Editorial and/or Commentary Article*
Will there be an editorial and/or commentary article for this theme issue, written by the editors (usually free of charge)?
Issue sponsored or non-sponsored*
Who will pay the Article Processing Fee(s)? You can decide to cover the costs for the theme issue through a sponsor or grant ("sponsored theme issue"), or have the authors pay the APF. We usually give 20% off the regular Article Processing Fees for a theme issue or waive the fee for 1 out of 5 theme issue articles (editors may use this to invite "stars" to publish a paper free of charge). Thus the approximate costs for a theme issue is the APF times number of articles minus 20% (e.g. $1500 * 10= $15.000, minus $3000 (20%) = $12.000).
If sponsored, who is going to be invoiced for the Article Processing Charges?
Preferred Discount*
First Submission Date*
Over what time period will the papers be submitted?
Please provide indicative first and last submission dates. Typical timelines can be found here
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Last Submission Date*
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Please visit the link below for further details as well as our MoU template and information on drafting a call for papers.

How to suggest a theme issue

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