About the Journal
Please note: IJDHT is a new journal. It will be published for the first time in 2025. Indexing in DOAJ, Web of Science and Scopus, among others, will be sought. We are looking forward to submissions for the first issue!
To submit a paper, please check the current Call for Papers of IJDHT.
Focus & Scope / Topics
The International Journal of Digital Health and Telemedicine (IJDHT, ISSN: 2944-5582) is an Open Access scientific journal for research on the use of digital technologies in medicine, in particular telemedicine. The journal provides a knowledge platform not only for researchers but also for clinicians, health practitioners, government and industry professionals.
The IJDHT publishes original research papers, literature reviews and case studies that deal with digitalization in medicine and telemedicine. This includes, for example, research on the acceptance and use of corresponding technologies, both on the part of patients and healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals include doctors, surgeons, nurses, dentists, audiologists and orthopaedists.
All research papers published in the International Journal of Digital Health and Telemedicine are
- rigorously, timely and construcively peer-reviewed
- freely available Open Access (CC BY 3.0 license)
- indexed in Crossref and the National Library of Germany
- assigned with a DOI
The International Journal of Digital Health and Telemedicine is also listed in the journal database (ZDB) of the German National Library, in the German National Bibliography and in the ISSN Portal.
Open Access Journal
The IJDHT is an open access journal for digital healh and telemedicine. Open Access means that the papers published in the IJDHT are available to readers free of charge and without payment barriers. We at WR Publishing not only believe that research (most of which is publicly funded) should be available free of charge. Studies also show that research published via Open Access is read more often and cited more frequently. That’s why all our journals are open access. (Learn more about our Open Access policy)
To cover our costs for the website, hosting, copy-editing etc., we charge our authors an article processing charge (APC). For more information on APC and to submit a paper to IJDHT for publication, please visit Submission & Publication section.
Frequency of Publication
The International Journal of Digital Health and Telemedicine is published twice a year.
Articles accepted for publication are published continuously, i.e. in the respective current issue. This form of continuous publication is particularly interesting for authors who want their paper to be published promptly.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Florian Ross, HFH Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany (LinkedIn)
Editorial Board
The Editorial Board of the International Journal of Digital Health and Telemedicine is a small, international team of experienced scientists with a strong research background in digital health and telemedicine.
- Erik Diez, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hungary (LinkedIn)
- Fariba Latifi, Lakehead University, Canada (LinkedIn)
- Paul A. Markham, National University, United States of America (LinkedIn)
Technical Editor
Atilla Wohllebe WR Publishing, Germany (LinkedIn)