Journal profile · Medicine-General Medicine
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes
ISSN 2542-4548 · Elsevier · United States
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes: impact factor 4.5 (journal website); fully open access; APC about USD 3,000; median 112 days to acceptance (48 articles, last 24 months); 81 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes is published by Elsevier. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies and Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance Devices, together about 29.2% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes (MCP:IQ&O) is an open access, digital (online) journal, sponsored by Mayo Clinic and belongs to the Mayo Clinic Proceedings family of journals. MCP:IQ&O is focused on promoting human well-being by offering a trusted knowledge platform encompassing innovations, quality, and outcomes research across the entire spectrum of the health care ecosystem.MCP:IQ&O publishes original research, reviews, case series, clinical content, editorials, commentaries, brief reports, special articles, and other short items.The content of MCP:IQ&O is organized along two broad themes: Measure What Matters and Health Care Futurology.Measure What Matters: Includes content related to research questions, quality improvement projects, clinical investigations, and narrative and systematic reviews by experts that crisply and pragmatically address current challenges faced by health care system stakeholders including clinicians, educators, system administrators, policy makers, industry, and global health systems.Health Care Futurology: As a combination of written and audio-visual content, Health Care Futurology provides a bold and unconventional subject matter platform to health care ecosystem stakeholders. Clinicians, educators, health policy experts, advocacy groups, health-system administrators and members of the biotech, pharma, and medical device industry can meaningfully engage in discussion, dialogue, and opinion writing on challenging, controversial, and disruptive topics including past failures and lessons learned that are expected to shape future health care.Submissions from all medical and surgical specialties are welcome as long as they are relevant to a broad audience and address the current and future challenges of the field.Domains of special and particular interest for MCP:IQ&O include:Addressing the burden of chronic diseases (for example, Lifestyle Medicine)Global HealthBelonging across the full spectrum of health care ecosystem (patients, care providers, systems, nations, and the global community)Ethical and policy issues pertaining to the biotech and infotech revolution and its interface with medicineUse of new methodology in clinical researchBioinformatics, telehealth, and health-systems researchHealth care economics
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Medicine-General Medicine
Editor-in-chief Taimur SherPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 28, Nigeria 3, Switzerland 2, Qatar 1 (34 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance15.3%
- COVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesMedicine7%
- Ferroelectric and Negative Capacitance DevicesEngineering7%
- Big Data and Digital EconomyComputer Science7%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering6.5%
- Educational Robotics and EngineeringComputer Science6.3%
- COVID-19 and healthcare impactsMedicine5.2%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions3.9%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
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)
- 4.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 5.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 5.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.89LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.33LetPub ·
- h-index
- 42OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 290OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 4.96OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 61LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 806 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | 59 | 1 |
| 2025 | 81 | 81 | 84 |
| 2024 | 79 | 79 | 1,001 |
| 2023 | 70 | 70 | 323 |
| 2022 | 74 | 74 | 935 |
| 2021 | 137 | 137 | 2,145 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
112 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 69 days – 144 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 33 days (48 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 147 days
- Sample
- 48 articles with submission and acceptance dates (128 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 10 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 49 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 90 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 18 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single 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 3,000 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 3,000 / EUR 2,810 / GBP 2,400 / JPY 372,090 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 3,000 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | USD 3,000 / USD 1,000 | — | — |
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- Templates
- Word
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted15, with length limits
- brief reportsOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- case reportstyle and to abridge them if necessary. Case Reports Case Reports should be approximately 800 to 1800 words (up to 7 typed, double-spaced pages). Case reports m…main text ≤ 1,800 words · figures and tables ≤ 2
- case reportsOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- commentariesOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- commentaryCommentaries are intended to offer expert insights into important or controversial topics related to clinical medicine, medical economics, governmental policy, …Length not stated
- editorialSubmission of Editorials is by invitation from, or prior arrangement with, the Editorial Board. Most Editorials will comment on other material (eg, an innovativ…Length not stated
- editorialsOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- letters to the editorOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- original articleThese include prospective clinical trials, laboratory research, retrospective clinical analyses (eg, case series), meta-analyses, and related research. Priority…Length not stated
- original articlesOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- review articleThese consist of a critical assessment of literature and existing data. Priority for publication is given to topics with relevance to the clinical care of patie…Length not stated
- review articlesOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- solicited reviewsOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- special articlesOriginal Articles Review Articles Solicited Reviews Special Articles Commentaries Brief Reports Editorials Letters to the Editor Case ReportsLength not stated
- systematic reviewGuidelines for the most frequent types of articles submitted to the journal are summarized below. Specific limits for word count, references, tables, and figure…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving
- AI use Declaration of Generative AI in Scientific Writing
Authors must declare the use of generative AI tools in the manuscript preparation process upon submission of the paper.Generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI tools”) have been rapidly adopted in research and scholarly publishing, offering significant benefits while requiring clear standards for responsible and transparent use.Authors preparing a manuscript for this journal may use AI tool…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
Crossref Similarity Check Model summary
All authors should have made substantial contributions to all of the following: (1) the conception and design of the study, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, (2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content, (3) final approval of the version to be submitted and (4) agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring tha…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Potential Financial and Other Competing Interests
All authors must disclose any financial and personal relationships with other people or organizations that could inappropriately influence (bias) their work. Examples of potential competing interests include employment, consultancies, stock ownership, honoraria, paid expert testimony, patent applications/registrations, and grants or other funding. Authors must disclose any potential competing inte…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing Policy
At this time authors are asked to state if data will be shared and provide an explanation if data cannot be shared.Changes/Additions to Published ArticlesWhen an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author's obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher, and cooperate with the editor to correct or retract the paper. Please see …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
Journal Publishing Agreement Model summary
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (see more information on this). An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this agreement. More information.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access
funding body agreements Model summary
Article Publishing Charge (APC): USD 3,000 (excluding taxes). Review this journal’s open access policy.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process and Confidentiality
single anonymized review process Model summary
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes uses a single anonymized review process. Reviewer identities are not, and should not be, disclosed to the authors or other reviewers. In addition, authors should not contact those whom they presume to be reviewers of their manuscript. All contributions are initially assessed by the Editor-in-Chief for suitability for the journal, and may ass…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprint Servers
In alignment with Elsevier's Sharing Policy (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/sharing), we will consider papers previously posted on preprint servers such as arXiv, bioRxiv, ChemRxiv, and SSRN. At submission, authors must acknowledge, in the cover letter, the preprint server deposit, including the date of deposition, and provide any associated URLs or DOIs. Papers should not be posted to a …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Embargo
All information regarding the content and publication date of accepted manuscripts is confidential. Information contained in or about accepted articles cannot appear in any media outlet (print, broadcast, or electronic) until online publication.
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
- Elsevier
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2542-4548
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗DOAJ
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗DOAJ
- Aims & Scope ↗DOAJ
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗DOAJ
- Editorial board ↗DOAJ
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes
What is the impact factor of Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 4.5; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 5.7, h-index 42.
How long does peer review take at Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes?
Based on the dates recorded on 48 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 112 days (interquartile range 69–144 days); authors report an average review time of about 12 weeks. 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 Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Reference style: AMA; Templates: Word; Graphical abstract: Optional; 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 Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes based?
Of the 34 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (28), Nigeria (3) and Switzerland (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes open access, and what is the APC?
Mayo Clinic Proceedings Innovations Quality Outcomes is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,000.
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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .