Section Policies
Editorial
Serious Games for Health and Medicine
Serious Games for Education
Serious Games for Political and Societal Change
User Needs Assessment for Games
Formative Evaluation and Development of Games
Exergames, Active Games and Gamification of Physical Activity
Quality of Games
Usability of Games and Gamification
Gamification
Gamification is one of the techniques that applies game elements, such as game mechanics and dynamics, to a nongame context (eg, management, education, marketing, and health care).
Games for Rehabilitation
Games for Cognitive Assessment
Games for Medical Education and Training
Game Development
Games for Pain Management
Theoretical Foundations and Frameworks on Games and Gamification
Viewpoints and Personal Experiences on Gaming and Games
Game Design and Efficacy of Game Elements
Questionnaires and Instruments Related to Gaming
For example, development and/or validation of questionnaires for users, developers, or analysts of serious games.
Game Addiction and Other Unintended Consequences
Discretionary Corrigenda
For corrigenda that are discretionary and a result of author-oversight (e.g. corrections in the affiliation etc) we charge a $190 processing fee to make changes in the original paper and publish an erratum. To request a correction, please submit a correction statement (text similar to http://www.jmir.org/2015/3/e76/) as new submission from your author homepage.
Corrigenda and Addenda
Letters to the Editor
Reviews
Research Letter
Research Letters present new, early, or preliminary research findings. The text should use standard research headings of Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion and should be no longer than 750 words, with a maximum of 10 references and 2 tables or figures. The APF for Research Letters accepted after peer review is lower than the standard APF.
Tutorials in Serious Games
Standard article type
Commentary
A commentary is published alongside other articles published in JMIR Publications journals. Commentaries are typically invited. Unsolicited commentaries may be considered at the discretion of the editor. They may or may not be peer-reviewed. Articles submitted as a commentary should offer thoughtful criticism of published work, drawing from evidence, expertise, and/or additional perspectives.