This question warrants a response from the general medical and academic community since this is a new genre of medicine that is building exponentially in impact on health care services nationwide.
There was a great enthusiasm for "telemedicine", but to the best of my knowledge and experience, "telemedicine" has been slow to bear fruit. Will e-health follow a similar path of slow development?
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
the e journals are increasing in numbrers and more and more people are using this forum. it is free for all buisness as all these journals have thir own eguidelines and rules.
i feel that we should have some agency who accredit them and monitor their publication in terms of impact factor and citation index. the big question is whether these online journal will accept such monitoring.
E journals are another means to display published material. Good ones follow the same principles of beer-reviewing and therefore they are expected to be as good as paper journals or combined journals. What is worrying is the tendency for a number of these online journals to be commercial not scientific in motives. They do not make adequate peer-review f the published articles.
Health Information System Journals – 2016 Rankings
A study was performed in 2016, when AIS-SIG-Health members were asked to recommend journals to add to the AIS Basket of Top eHealth Journals. 61 members responded to the survey. Survey Responses were ordered based on percentage of people who voted to add each journal to the basket. Please see attached PDF file of results. That should begin to answer your question.
While the development of e journals, we all should welcome at the same time there should be some efforts to have self declared norms from the journal side as well as some regulatory mechnism from scientific community should also come forward which may be adopted by the editorial board of journal on voluntary bases.
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