JMIR Publications correspondent Katie Cottingham explores how citizen science is involving communities in the research process, and why it could make for better science.

JMIR Publications is the leading ehealth publisher, advancing progress in the health, engineering and social sciences to ultimately help people to live happier and healthier lives using technology. JMIR Publications helps innovators in the health technology space to collaborate and to disseminate their innovations, ideas, and research results to the widest possible audience. JMIR Publications is a rapidly growing innovative academic publisher. It builds on the success of JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research), which started in 1998 as a small independent open access project hosted at a university, which subsequently grew into the most influential journal in medical informatics (ranked #1 by Impact Factor by Thomson Reuters for three years, JIF>5.0) and health services research. Pioneer in #openaccess and #openscience, JMIR Publications is now also publishing a superjournal JMIRx as overlay journal on top of preprint servers.