JMIR Medical Education Achieves #1 Ranking: New Journal Impact Factor Announcement

(Toronto, ON, June 19, 2025) JMIR Publications is delighted to announce that JMIR Medical Education received a remarkable Journal Impact Factor of 12.5, as published in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) 2025 from Clarivate. This places JMIR Medical Education at the #1 position in the “Education, Scientific Disciplines” category (ranked #1 of 86).

This exceptional achievement highlights the journal’s role in publishing medical education research and curricular innovations from around the world, particularly in a rapidly evolving landscape involving new technologies such as generative artificial intelligence (AI). JMIR Medical Education is dedicated to publishing rigorous, impactful studies that explore innovative pedagogical approaches, technology-enhanced learning, and best practices in health professions education.

This milestone reflects the innovative educational contributions of authors and the dedication of peer reviewers, editors, and journal staff. In collaboration with current editor in chief Blake J Lesselroth, MD, MBI, FACP, FAMIA, from the University of Oklahoma, the journal celebrates the published works of its authors and the high ranking.

This success builds upon JMIR Publications’ overall strong performance in the Journal Impact Factor 2025 rankings and complements its recent achievements in the Scopus CiteScore rankings.

Here is a selection of the top-cited articles in JMIR Medical Education as recognized in the JCR 2025 from Clarivate: 

• Gilson A, Safranek C, Huang T, Socrates V, Chi L, Taylor R, Chartash D. How Does ChatGPT Perform on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)? The Implications of Large Language Models for Medical Education and Knowledge Assessment. JMIR Med Educ 2023;9:e45312 (doi: 10.2196/45312) 

• Abd-alrazaq A, AlSaad R, Alhuwail D, Ahmed A, Healy P, Latifi S, Aziz S, Damseh R, Alabed Alrazak S, Sheikh J. Large Language Models in Medical Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions. JMIR Med Educ 2023;9:e48291 (doi: 10.2196/48291)

• Takagi S, Watari T, Erabi A, Sakaguchi K. Performance of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on the Japanese Medical Licensing Examination: Comparison Study. JMIR Med Educ 2023;9:e48002 (doi: 10.2196/48002)

In 2023, Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, FACMI, publisher and founding editor of JMIR Medical Education, wrote an early and widely cited editorial on the transformative role of ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) in medical education, and initiated a call for papers on this topic. The Gilson et al paper on the performance of ChatGPT in the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USLME) was the first of its kind, demonstrating the remarkable capabilities of ChatGPT for learning and for mastering complex medical questions (interview with Andrew Taylor, one of the coauthors, on YouTube here). Followed by many other studies examining the use of ChatGPT for medical training and evaluation, JMIR Medical Education has become the go-to journal for authors to publish their LLM-related research in medical education, and for medical educators and students to draw inspiration from tools and innovations developed to tackle new challenges and opportunities created by AI/LLMs. “It is my hope that JMIR Medical Education continues to be the top journal among all education journals by attracting the best original research, reviews and viewpoint papers on the role of LLMs in medical education, but also other new technologies that we are not imagining today,” commented Eysenbach, who passed the editor-in-chief torch to Blake J Lesselroth in 2024. 

Notes:

JMIR Medical Education will be listed in the category page with its ranking in JCR’s October 2025 Reload, and the journal’s profile page will then include the full 2024 profile data. Due to indexing delays, some content was missing from the Web of Science at the time of JCR data extraction. As a result, the journal’s profile page will initially display the 2023 profile, with a prominent note indicating that the data for 2024 are forthcoming.

The journal is categorized under “Education, Scientific Disciplines.” When viewing all journals in this category, a note will indicate that the #1 journal is forthcoming. Projected metrics for the journal are available on the Help page. Clarivate has since received all the missing articles that were required to calculate the Journal Impact Factor.

To view a full list of JMIR Publications journals with a Journal Impact Factor, please visit the website. 

JMIR Publications recommends that authors and other parties consider alternative metrics, in combination with the Journal Impact Factor, when assessing a journal’s standing and impact. While proud of its Journal Impact Factor rankings, JMIR Publications discourages misuse of citation-based impact scores.

Source: Journal Citation Reports 2025 from Clarivate