About the Journal

mHealth

Aims and Scope

The mHealth (Online ISSN: 2306-9740), launched in 2015 and indexed by PubMed and PubMed Central in March 2017 is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by AME Publishing Company. The journal aims at discovering impact of telemedicine on the quality, cost effectiveness, and access to healthcare, and providing excellent coverage of developments in telemedicine and e-health with a focus on clinical trials of telemedicine applications. It publishes new findings on how mobile technologies improve public health, particularly among underserved populations and provides a forum to disseminate the mobile technologies, which enable to transform global health care on many fronts.

mHealth was indexed in Web of Science [Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)] in July 2022 and has attained its latest impact factor of 2.2 for the 2023 citation year.

Contributions from such diverse fields as medical research, software design, clinical health care, hardware manufacture and network transmission provide a unique perspective on how different countries and health systems are using new technology in health care.

The journal features original articles, cutting-edge reviews, case reports, meet the professors, and editorials focused on mobile technology application to public health. The entire submission and review process are managed through OJS system, an electronic system, which provides an efficient way and ensures a rapid turnaround of papers submitted for publication.

Indexing

mHealth is indexed and covered by

Information for Authors

mHealth is a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and it follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)'s guidelines and the ICMJE recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journal.

Manuscripts submitted must be the original work of the author(s) and must not be published previously or under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Submission Turnaround Time

  • In-house review: 1-3 weeks
  • External peer review: 1-3 months
  • Publication Ahead of Print: within 1 month after being accepted
  • Formal publication: within 1-3 months after being accepted. Original Articles are listed as priority.

Publication Schedule

Published continuously from Mar. 2015 to Dec. 2019, MH now follows a quarterly publication model (January, April, July, October).

Open Access Statement

This journal is a peer reviewed, open access journal. All content of the journal is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for all to read, download, copy and distribute as defined by the applied license.

Free access and usage
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This license allows users to copy and distribute the article, provided:

  • this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way.
  • the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI) and provides a link to the license but not in an any way implying that the licensor is endorsing the user or the use of the work.
  • no derivatives including remix, transform, or build upon the material was allowed for distribution.

The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Copyright

For open access publishing, this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will transfer copyright to AME Publishing Company, but will have the right to share their article in the same way permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.

For any inquiry/special circumstance on the copyright, commercial usage or adaptation of mHealth articles, please contact: permissions@amegroups.com

For reprint order, please contact: sales@amegroups.com

Support for Authors to Comply with Funding Body Mandates

We work with authors of research articles supported by funding bodies with open access mandates to ensure that authors can meet their funders’ requirements for public access to research results.

In addition, we offer further support for authors who are required to comply with funding body mandates, including but not limited to:

Editorial Office

Email: editor@themhealth.org

Publisher Information

mHealth is published by AME Publishing Company.
Addresses:
Hong Kong branch office: Flat/RM C 16F, Kings Wing Plaza 1, NO. 3 on Kwan Street, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, China.
Singapore branch office: Pico Creative Centre, 20 Kallang Ave #03-08, 339411 Singapore, Singapore.

 

Updated on July 19, 2024