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Articles
Associate Editor spotlight
Rebecca Armstrong
Dr Armstrong is the Executive Manager of Knowledge Translation & Impact at the Australian Institute for Family Studies, and has an appointment at the University of Melbourne where she is Director of Public Health Insight and the joint Co-ordinating Editor of Cochrane Public Health.
World Health Day 2018
"Health for All" has been the WHO's guiding vision for more than seven decades. On this 70th anniversary year, beginning on April 7th - World Health Day - the WHO will maintain a high-profile focus on Universal Health Coverage via a series of events with global and local conversations about the many ways to achieve #HealthForAll. In support of World Health Day 2018, we've pulled together a collection of high-impact, influential articles and content from across BMC, relevant to this year's UHC theme.
Read relevant BMC research, blogs, and submit your own research today!
Aims and Scope
Implementation Science aims to publish research relevant to the scientific study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings into routine healthcare in clinical, organisational or policy contexts.
Editors-in-Chief
Anne Sales, Department of Veterans Affairs and University of Michigan, USA
Michel Wensing, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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Editors' Profiles
Anne Sales, Editor-in-Chief
Anne Sales is a Professor in the University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Learning Health Sciences, and Research Scientist at the Center for Clinical Management Research at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Her training is in sociology, health economics, econometrics, and general health services research.
Her current work involves theory-based design of implementation interventions, including understanding how feedback reports affect provider behavior and through behavior change have an impact on patient outcomes, and the role of social networks in uptake of knowledge translation interventions.
Michel Wensing, Editor-in-Chief
Michel Wensing is Professor of Health Services Research and Implementation Science at the Department of General Practice and Health Services Research at Heidelberg University Hospital. He was trained in medical sociology, health economics, quality improvement, and health services research. He currently leads the two-year M.Sc. program Health Services Research and Implementation Science in the medical faculty of Heidelberg University.
His research focuses on primary and ambulatory healthcare, with emphasis on general practice, and on implementation science concepts, such as tailored implementation, patient self-management, and provider networks.
Michel Wensing has been a member of the Implementation Science editorial team since the journal started in 2006. In 2012, he took on the Editor-in-Chief position together with Anne Sales.
Paul Wilson, Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Paul Wilson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Greater Manchester.
Paul has a background in evidence synthesis with research interests that are focused around evidence informed decision making in health policy and practice. His interests include rapid review methodologies, the development and evaluation of methods to increase the uptake of research based knowledge to inform decisions relating to service delivery, redesign, disinvestment and the evaluation of service innovation in health systems.
Paul is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Protocols Editor of Implementation Science.
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2016 Journal Metrics
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Speed
21 days from submission to first decision
14 days from acceptance to publication
Citation Impact
3.354 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.718 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.746 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.926 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
Usage
1,046,973 Downloads
1536.0 Usage Factor
Social Media Impact
330 Mentions
