Journal profile · Neuroscience-Neurology
Implementation Research and Practice
ISSN 2633-4895 · SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom
Implementation Research and Practice: CAS Zone 3 · Medicine (2026 Xinrui edition); impact factor 2.2 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 1,000; review about 346 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 14.8% (journal website); 28 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Implementation Research and Practice is published by SAGE Publishing and is classed under Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Health Policy Implementation Science, Mental Health and Patient Involvement and Community Health and Development, together about 50.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal HighlightsImplementation Research and Practice is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online-only journal providing rapid publica...
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Neuroscience-Neurology
Editor-in-chief Sonja SchoenwaldPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 65, Canada 5, Australia 4, Sweden 4, United Kingdom 2 (85 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions32.6%
- Mental Health and Patient InvolvementHealth Professions9.7%
- Community Health and DevelopmentHealth Professions8.5%
- Digital Mental Health InterventionsPsychology5.6%
- Behavioral and Psychological StudiesPsychology5%
- Opioid Use Disorder TreatmentMedicine3.5%
- Health Sciences Research and EducationHealth Professions3.5%
- Substance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesMedicine3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Health Policy & Services | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.2Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 4.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.1LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.88LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- h-index
- 31OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 90OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 3.37OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 28LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 217 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 16 | 16 | 2 |
| 2025 | 28 | 28 | 92 |
| 2024 | 24 | 24 | 135 |
| 2023 | 37 | 37 | 285 |
| 2022 | 45 | 45 | 617 |
| 2021 | 52 | 52 | 1,539 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
346 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 18 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 18 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 14.8%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 77 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 346 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 59 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 18 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 1,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC | |
| OpenAlex | USD 1,000 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 1,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 2,000 / USD 1,200 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare10 items from the author guidelines
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,500 words
- Reference style
- APA
- Templates
- LaTeX and Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Required
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- PLS
Article types accepted6
- methodologyMethodology: To continuously advance the field of implementation research, new methods are needed.Length not stated
- perspectiveView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. We will publish original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research, presentations on i…Length not stated
- researchResearch: Research articles should report original primary research.Length not stated
- research articleView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. We will publish original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research, presentations on i…Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. We will publish original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research, presentations on i…Length not stated
- viewpointView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. We will publish original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research, presentations on i…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Authorship
Please view our authorship policies, which includes information on criteria for authorship, who should be the corresponding author and more. Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright
Creative Commons licensing for manuscript content Model summary
Manuscript content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Licenses
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
Implementation Research and Practice is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. All accepted articles are made freely available online immediately upon publication, are published under a Creative Commons license, and hosted online in perpetuity. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable to cover the cost of publishing, …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor/ Associate Editor/ Editorial Assistant Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to pee…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal conforms to the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment as a condition of consideration for publication. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be included at the end of the abstract.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2633-4895
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Implementation Research and Practice
What CAS zone is Implementation Research and Practice in?
In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Implementation Research and Practice?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.2; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.1, h-index 31.
How long does peer review take at Implementation Research and Practice?
The publisher reports about 346 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 18 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 14.8%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Implementation Research and Practice?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,500 words; Reference style: APA; Templates: LaTeX and Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Required; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Implementation Research and Practice based?
Of the 85 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (65), Canada (5) and Australia (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Implementation Research and Practice?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Implementation Research and Practice is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Implementation Research and Practice open access, and what is the APC?
Implementation Research and Practice is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 1,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .