JMIR Diabetes

Emerging technologies, medical devices, apps, sensors, and informatics to help people with diabetes

Editor-in-Chief:

Ricardo Correa, MD, EdD (Co-Editor-in-Chief), Cleveland Clinic, United States

Sheyu Li, MD (Co-Editor-in-Chief), West China Hospital, Sichuan University, China


Impact Factor 2.6 CiteScore 4.7

JMIR Diabetes (JD, ISSN 2371-4379) focuses on technologies, medical devices, apps, engineering, informatics and patient education for diabetes prevention, self-management, care, and cure, to help people with diabetes. JMIR Diabetes may consider papers that do not have a digital health component but represent a significant innovation for diabetes prevention and care.

JMIR Diabetes publishes original research, viewpoints, and reviews (both literature reviews and medical device/technology/app reviews) covering, for example, wearable devices and trackers, mobile apps, glucose monitoring (including emerging technologies such as Google contact lens), medical devices for insulin and metabolic peptide delivery, closed loop systems and artificial pancreas, telemedicine, web-based diabetes education and elearning, innovations for patient self-management and "quantified self", diabetes-specific EHR improvements, clinical or consumer-focused software, diabetes epidemiology and surveillance, crowdsourcing and quantified self-based research data, new sensors and actuators to be applied to diabetes.

As an Open Access journal, JMIR Diabetes is read by clinicians and patients alike and has (as all JMIR Publications journals) a focus on readable and applied science reporting the design and evaluation of health innovations and emerging technologies, as well as on diabetes prevention and epidemiology.

JMIR Diabetes is indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, DOAJ, Scopus and the Web of Science™ (ESCI).

JMIR Diabetes received an inaugural Journal Impact Factor of 2.6 according to the latest release of the Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate, 2025.

With a CiteScore of 4.7 (2024), JMIR Diabetes is a Q2 journal in the field of Health Informatiion Management, according to Scopus data.

 

 

Recent Articles

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Diabetes Education and Elearning for Patients

In the past decade, telehealth has transformed healthcare delivery by allowing patients more rapid and convenient access to necessary care without the cost and logistical challenges of traveling to a healthcare facility. Telehealth services can benefit patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) amidst a growing epidemic of T2DM in the United States that affects people of all ages and races. In 2020, 33 million people were diagnosed with this chronic disease, with the number expected to rise 50% by 2040. Telehealth facilitates regular contact between patients and their providers, especially when there are geographic barriers and time constraints prohibiting physical interaction, at little or no added cost to the patient and at their convenience.

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Diabetes Health Services and System Innovations

Closed-loop insulin delivery is the new standard of care for patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). However, in France, its implementation remains predominantely hospital based. Expanding access to this treatment through alternative care models looks essential.

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Artificial Intelligence in Diabetes Care and Prevention

Diabetes prediction requires accurate, privacy-preserving, and scalable solutions. Traditional machine learning (ML) models rely on centralized data, posing risks to data privacy and regulatory compliance. Moreover, healthcare settings are highly heterogeneous, with diverse participants, hospitals, clinics, and wearables, producing non-IID data and operating under varied computational constraints. Learning in isolation at individual institutions limits model generalizability and effectiveness. Collaborative federated learning (FL) enables institutions to jointly train models without sharing raw data, but current approaches often struggle with heterogeneity, security threats, and system coordination.

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Psychosocial Effects of Diabetes and Support for People with Diabetes

Existing qualitative research in peer support interventions has largely focused on the recipients of support, rather than those delivering support. Exploring the perspectives of both roles may provide a holistic understanding of the peer support experience.

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Apps, Mobile, Wearables for Diabetes

In our study, the Sibio KS1 CKM device captured β-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) dynamics during exogenous ketosis but revealed a gradual decline day-to-day BHB concentrations over 14 days in both KE and PBO groups, likely reflecting sensor drift.

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Artificial Intelligence in Diabetes Care and Prevention

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a major complication of diabetes and the leading cause of end-stage renal disease globally. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have shown increasing potential in DKD research for early detection, risk prediction, and disease management. However, the landscape of AI applications in this field remains incompletely mapped, especially in terms of collaboration networks, thematic evolution, and clinical translation.

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Glucose Tracking and Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose

Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is a prevalent chronic condition that affects maternal and fetal health outcomes worldwide, increasingly in underserved populations. While generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in healthcare, their application in GDM management remains underexplored.

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Diabetes Self-Management

Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGM) reduce the burden of glycemic monitoring and improve glycemic control, quality of life, and healthcare utilization. Despite expanded insurance coverage and adoption, barriers remain especially in primary care. Existing research largely evaluates specific populations or interventions, leaving limited insight into broader primary care experience.

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Apps, Mobile, Wearables for Diabetes

Many mobile applications exist for diabetes self-management; however, most target Western populations and lack dietary content relevant to Asian contexts. Our mobile application addresses this gap by providing self-care tools and a database of regionally relevant foods.

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Exercise and Diet Tracking for Diabetes Patients

Primary care diabetes management lacks objective, scalable methods for continuous physical activity surveillance. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), routinely collected in diabetes care, offers untapped potential as an automated digital biomarker but requires validation for behavioral phenotyping.

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Diabetes Self-Management

One in four Veterans who receive care through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has type 2 diabetes (T2D). Dietary carbohydrate restriction can promote weight loss and improve blood glucose control, but Veterans taking certain medications (e.g., insulin) may experience serious complications (e.g., hypoglycemia) without adequate support and monitoring.

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Diabetes Education and Elearning for Health Professionals

Insulin therapy is crucial for type 2 diabetes mellitus management, with increasing usage in Indonesia, and its effectiveness is well-established. However, prescribing insulin poses various challenges that can impact the effectiveness of insulin. Patient education is crucial for the successful implementation of insulin therapy. Proper insulin use remains insufficient in Indonesia.

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