WHY CHOOSE TELEHEALTH AND MEDICINE TODAY?

Editorial Mission

Telehealth and Medicine Today (THMT) open access international peer reviewed journal explores the latest research, innovations, and applications in telemedicine, telehealth, and digital health disciplines. The publication aims to advance healthcare by fostering discussions on emerging technology and trends, policy, regulation, and real world implementations that improve care quality, outcomes, global access to care, and lower the cost of healthcare. The journal addresses  interdisciplinary collaboration across clinical, engineering, and operational aspects, and seeks to inform and engage healthcare providers, academia, policymakers, industry stakeholders, consumers, and technology innovators - bridging research excellence with real world practical implementations and healthcare solutions, encouraging the adoption of scalable, actionable evidence based digital health strategies. The publication places a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, featuring topics such as artificial intelligence in healthcare, data security, telehealth standards, patient experience, and policy reform. Upload your work to https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/about/submissions

Use the list of features below to conduct your journal comparisons in the field to help determine if THMT is the best fit for you to submit and amplify your research. 

• 100% fully open access - no gimmicks, no paywalls, and no time limits imposed for any article
• No fees to submit manuscript
• No page charges - including color or graphics
• No membership fees
• Wavers waived up to 100% 
• Transparent APC fees - THMT APC is $650 and $450 for enrolled university students. 
• There is NO APC for failed or negative research, editorials, or blogs.
• Frequency: Quarterly (4) issues per year: March, June, September, and December. Respective deadlines will be the first of the month prior. For example, the deadline for the March issue is Feb 1, and so on.
• Excellent customer service responding in 24 hours. There are no black holes or long wait times for authors.

“My experience working with publisher and managing editor of Telehealth and Medicine Today was excellent. We greatly appreciated the editorial direction and responsiveness in regard to our findings in this pediatrics focus innovation pilot. The manuscript preparation directions were clear and the portal to submit materials was user friendly.”  

- Nivedita Mohanty, MD, Chief Research Officer, AllianceChicago

• Indexed in
  • SCOPUS
  • Google Scholar
  • EBSCOhost Health Business Elite
  • ScienceOpen
  • Unpaywall
  • NEBIS
  • Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER)
  • ProQuest Health & Medical Complete
  • ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Program
  • ProQuest Public Health
  • PKP Metadata Harvester 
  • *Under review at WoS

Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) H-Index: 1

Scopus Citescore 2024:  0.125

• Peer review is rigorous and excellent. Editors are truly engaged with the journal, field, and industry.

“The peer review process with THMT was a value-added experience from initial submission to final acceptance. The guidance by reviewers and editors indicates a deep understanding of the nuances regarding the important questions facing telehealth, AI and digital health innovations. The feedback was focused and accurate. The final paper is much better thanks to THMT input and guidance.”

- Dr Dimitrios Kalogeropoulos, PhD Chief Executive, Global Health & Digital Innovation Foundation

• 2024 Article Statistics
  • Days to First Editorial Decision:  4
  • Desk Reject Rate:   27%
  • Acceptance Rate:  34%
  • Days to Accept:  69
  • Average days to publication:  75 
    • Note, WoS Clarivate flagged THMT days to accept in 2023/4 as short. It has come to our attention a legacy publisher has a shorter number of days to accept - 27 days. 

• Member of
  • COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics)
  • COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition
  • DORA
  • ICMJE
  • Research Data Alliance (RDA)
  • Wellcome.org (sharing COVID-19 research data)
  • UN SDG Publisher’s Compact
  • Helsinki Initiative on Multilingualism

• Citation tracking with IO4C (Initiative for Open Citations)
• Targeted email announcements to an international ecosystem and readership promotes content with direct links to your article
• Google Analytics average montly impressions range fom 65,000 - 72,000
• Amplification across 12 social media outlets for print, audio, and video
• Author owns/retains copyright CC-BY-NC
• No embargoes
• Collaborate with Scite, Publons, Code Ocean, ReviewerCredits, Editage, and others
• ConVerge2Xcelerate (ConV2X) Annual Symposium, September, New York, NY, USA 
• Authors can self archive and freely share their work for
  • Submitted version
  • Accepted version (author accepted manuscript)
  • Published version (version of record)
• Press Releases for new issues and articles go out over bonafied news wires for real time pick up
• Amplifies work to an international ecosystem, journal readers, and subscribers across 110+ countries
• Publishes multilingual formats, i.e. Spanish 
• Video abstracts accepted
• Articles published in four (4) formats – PDF, XML, HTML and ePub
• Archived on Portico, Lockess, Crossef – corrections on Crossmark
• Authors qualify for the Annual Editors Best Article Award
• Elective Transparent Review offered

• American Telemdicine Association (ATA), USA
• Associação Paulista de Medicina (APM), Brazil
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE SA), USA
• International Society for Telemedicine & eHealth (ISfTeH), Switzerland

Additional attributes

• Companion ConVerge2Xcelerate  (ConV2X) Symposium
• First journal to require and publish financial conflict of interest from all editors and staff
• Authors can be guest speakers on webinars or podcasts
• Authors can be featured speakers at the annual ConVerge2Xcelerate  (ConV2X) event
• Journal portfolio includes Blockchain in Healthcare Today open access peer reviewed journal, indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus and others
• Authors are encouraged to post articles for discussion and amplification on PubPeer, ResearchGate, ORCID, and Research Hub

Audience

The Telehealth and Medicine Today provides a platform that bridges excellence from research laboratory to real world market transformation and impact. Viewership includes leaders from universities, hospitals, medical research centers, payors, researchers, medical directors, IT/IS, healthcare providers, nurses, consultants, service and platform providers, entrepreneurs and startups, pharmaceutical, device, pharmacy, NGO, government, and policy and regulators around the globe.

Who is already published in THMT?

Manuscripts from a bibliodiverse global ecosystem are published in THMT with authors from every continent.

Author affiliations include:

• Universities: Harvard, McGill University, MIT, Vanderbilt University, Tufts University, University of Wisconsin, University of Colorado, University of Wisconsin, IFRISSE, Kennesaw University, UCSF, Wake Forest School of Medicine, University of California, University of North Carolina, University of Cincinnati, University of Toronto, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, University of Belgrad, Thomas Jefferson College of Population Health, Case Western Reserve University
• Health Systems: Mayo Clinic, Sutter Health, Duke Cancer Institute, NC Department of Health and Human Services, West Michigan Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Companies: Cigna, HealthTap, Biofourmis, IBM, Clearstep, MITRE Corp, Nixon Law Group, West Corp, 2Morrow Inc. 96Point6, Avera, EGB Law Group
• Consulting Firms: Frost and Sullivan, Deloitte, Cromford Health, Schumacher Clinical Partners

Should you have questions, please contact the publisher, Tory Cenaj, at t.cenaj@partnersindigitalhealth.com

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