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Implementation Science Communications

Implementation Science Communications is an official companion journal to Implementation Science that publishes research to foster the uptake of evidence based practices and policies affecting health care delivery and health outcomes in clinical, organizational, and policy contexts. It is an inclusive, multidisciplinary journal covering implementation intervention development, process evaluations, economic evaluations, theory-based studies, and studies across the implementation continuum, with an emphasis on open science and transparent peer review.

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Subject Health Care Sciences & Services, Health Policy & Services
Impact Factor 3.3
Quartile Q1
Open Access Type Open
eISSN 2662-2211
Invitation Only Yes
Cost Range £1790.00 GBP / $2390.00 USD / €1990.00 EUR APC; subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

Submission Instructions

Implementation Science Communications is an invitation-only journal. Submissions are accepted by invitation from the editorial board only. The following article types are accepted:

Research

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, explain any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm that all authors approved the manuscript for submission, confirm that the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and state the special issue name if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 350 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must include the headings Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, and articles reporting health care interventions on human participants must also include a Trial registration section with the registration number and date, including the words 'retrospectively registered' if applicable.
Manuscript Research articles must be no longer than 5500 words, counting the main text from the Introduction to the end of the Conclusions but excluding the abstract, tables, and figures. Manuscript must include Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and a Declarations section with the subheadings Ethics approval and consent to participate, Consent for publication, Availability of data and materials, Competing interests, Funding, Authors' contributions, and Acknowledgements, with Authors' information optional. Manuscript must include a Contributions to the literature section of three to five lay-language bullet points totaling no more than 100 words immediately after the abstract, include three to ten keywords, state 'Not applicable' under any Declarations subheading that is not relevant, and document any use of a Large Language Model in the Methods section or another suitable section if no Methods section is available.
References References must follow Vancouver style. Only published or publicly available articles, clinical trial registration records, and abstracts may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must not appear in the reference list; journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE; and web links must appear as full references with the site title, full URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript, tables longer than one page may be placed at the end of the document with callouts in the text, figure titles and legends must appear in the main manuscript rather than in the graphic files, and figures must be uploaded separately in the order cited. Multi-panel figures must be submitted as a single composite file, table footnotes should use superscript lower-case letters or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data, and figures and footnotes must not contain tables or figures where prohibited.
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Systematic Review

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, explain any issues relating to journal policies, declare potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved the submission, confirm the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable.
Abstract A structured abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 350 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract headings must be Background, Methods, Results, Conclusions, and Registration, and a systematic review registration number should be given as the last line if the review is registered.
Manuscript Systematic reviews must be no longer than 5500 words, excluding the abstract, tables, and figures, with the count running from the Introduction to the end of the Conclusions. Manuscript should be titled as a systematic review and include separate Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions, and Declarations sections, with Results and Discussion presented separately. Manuscript must include a bulleted 'Contributions to the literature' section of three to five bullet points totaling no more than 100 words immediately after the abstract, three to ten keywords, all required Declarations subheadings with 'Not applicable' where relevant, and documentation of any Large Language Model use in the Methods or a suitable alternative section.
References References must follow Vancouver reference style. Only published or publicly available articles, clinical trial registration records, and abstracts may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must not appear in the reference list; journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE; and full web references must include the site title, URL, access date, and a reference number.
Figures & Tables Figures must be uploaded separately in the order first cited, while tables under one page may be placed within the manuscript and larger tables may be placed at the end with callouts in the text. Figure titles and legends must appear in the main manuscript rather than the image file, multi-panel figures must be submitted as single composite files, tables must not be embedded as figures or spreadsheets, and footnotes must be used instead of endnotes.
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Correspondence

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, explain any issues relating to journal policies, declare any potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved submission, confirm the manuscript has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name any special issue if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 250 words.
Manuscript Correspondence should be around 800 words excluding references. Correspondence must relate to the original published article and include a title page with the title, all authors’ full names and institutional addresses, and the corresponding author indicated. Correspondence must include three to ten keywords, a list of abbreviations if abbreviations are used, and a Declarations section with the subheadings 'Ethics approval and consent to participate', 'Consent for publication', 'Availability of data and materials', 'Competing interests', 'Funding', 'Authors' contributions', and 'Acknowledgements', using 'Not applicable' where a subsection is irrelevant.
References References must follow Vancouver style. Only published articles, clinical trial registration records, and abstracts or items available through public e-print or preprint servers may be cited, unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must be excluded from the reference list, journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE, and web references must be numbered and include the site title, full URL, and access date.
Figures & Tables Tables shorter than one page may be placed in the manuscript where they belong, tables longer than one page may be placed at the end of the document with callouts in the text, and figure titles and legends must be provided in the main manuscript while figure files are uploaded separately. Figures and tables must be numbered in the order cited, multi-panel figures must be submitted as single composite files, tables must be created using the word processor’s table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheets, and footnotes must not contain figures or tables.
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Short Report

Cover Letter A cover letter is required. Cover letter must explain why the manuscript should be published, explain any issues relating to journal policies, declare potential competing interests, confirm all authors have approved submission, confirm the content has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable.
Abstract An abstract is required. Abstract must not exceed 350 words. Abstract must be structured. Abstract must include the headings Background, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, and for reports of health care interventions on human participants it must also include Trial registration with the registration number and date, using the words 'retrospectively registered' if applicable.
Manuscript Short reports must be no longer than 2500 words, counting main text from the Introduction through the end of the Conclusions but excluding the abstract, tables, figures, and similar material. Short reports must include the section headings Background, Methods, Results, Discussion, and Conclusions, plus a Declarations section with the required subheadings and a Contributions to the literature section inserted immediately after the abstract. Manuscript must include a bulleted Contributions to the literature section of three to five lay-language bullet points totaling no more than 100 words, three to ten keywords, an Availability of data and materials statement, and Declarations subsections that state 'Not applicable' when not relevant, while any use of a Large Language Model must be documented in the Methods section or a suitable alternative section.
References References must follow Vancouver style. Only published or in-press articles, clinical trial registration records, abstracts, and publicly available e-prints or preprints may be cited; unpublished abstracts, unpublished data, and personal communications must be excluded from the reference list; journal abbreviations must follow Index Medicus/MEDLINE; web references must appear in the reference list with a reference number, full site title, full URL, and access date; and publicly available datasets should be cited with a persistent identifier such as a DOI.
Figures & Tables Tables shorter than one page may be placed within the manuscript, tables longer than one page may be placed at the end of the document with callouts in the text, figure titles and legends must appear in the main manuscript rather than the graphic file, and figures must be uploaded separately in the order cited. Figures and tables must be numbered in sequence, multi-panel figures must be submitted as a single composite file, figure and table titles must not exceed 15 words, figure and table legends must not exceed 300 words, and tables must be created with the word processor's table function rather than embedded as figures or spreadsheet files.
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Recent Publications

Assessing PRISM context domains and RE-AIM outcomes: data from use of the iterative PRISM webtool

Russell E. Glasgow, Bryan S. Ford, Jun Ying, Carlos Rodriguez, Borsika A. Rabin, Katy E. Trinkley

10.1186/s43058-026-00982-3
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Provider comments reveal barriers to EHR nudge effectiveness: process evaluation of a null deprescribing trial

Ratnalekha V. N. Viswanadham, Hayley M. Belli, Tiffany Rose Martinez, Christina Wong, Saul B. Blecker, Andrea B. Troxel, Devin M. Mann

10.1186/s43058-026-00983-2
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Effect of implementing an evidence-based clinical practice intra-hospital transport guideline for hospitalized children: a type III hybrid implementation-effectiveness study

Yang Li, Yuxia Yang, Jing Hu, Wenchao Wang, Yun Jin, Weijie Shen, Yanhong Zhang, Yingfeng Zhou, Ye Cheng, Jos M. Latour, Ying Gu

10.1186/s43058-026-00962-7
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Implementing a primary-tertiary shared care model for enhancing cascade testing for familial hypercholesterolaemia: an effectiveness–implementation hybrid type III pre–post study

Mitchell Sarkies, Madeline Calder, David Sullivan, Shubha Srinivasan, Catherine Spinks, Emile Belramoul, Ronald J. Trent, Claire Trumble, Charlotte Hespe, Stephen C. H. Li, Luke Elias, Brendan Goodger, Karen Birkenhead

10.1186/s43058-026-00988-x
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Community health worker implementation of transdiagnostic evidence-based treatment in Spanish: protocol for refinement, implementation, and a feasibility pilot RCT

Erika L. Gustafson, Naomi Quezada, Kellyn N. Blaisdell, Gabriella Bobadilla, Colleen Stiles-Shields, Kelly McCabe, Stacy Ignoffo, Anubhav Kidambi, Greg Staszko, Beatriz Medina, Dale L. Smith, Miya Barnett, Emily E. Anderson, Yamilé Molina, Laura Murray, Sara J. Becker, Niranjan S. Karnik

10.1186/s43058-026-00980-5
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Frequently asked questions

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Is a cover letter required?

A cover letter is required and should explain why the manuscript should be published in Implementation Science Communications, address any issues relating to journal policies, declare potential competing interests, confirm all authors approved the submission, confirm the work has not been published or submitted elsewhere, and name the special issue if applicable. Authors may also suggest preferred or non-preferred peer reviewers in the cover letter.

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What are the publication costs?

Article processing charge: £1790.00 GBP / $2390.00 USD / €1990.00 EUR for each accepted article, subject to VAT or local taxes where applicable.

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Research Topics

Health Policy Implementation Science Mental Health and Patient Involvement Community Health and Development HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions Health Sciences Research and Education Evaluation and Performance Assessment Primary Care and Health Outcomes Global Maternal and Child Health Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Interprofessional Education and Collaboration Clinical practice guidelines implementation Global Cancer Incidence and Screening Diabetes Management and Education Participatory Visual Research Methods Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes Digital Mental Health Interventions Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Mental Health Treatment and Access Mobile Health and mHealth Applications Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Healthcare cost, quality, practices Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection Complex Systems and Decision Making Cervical Cancer and HPV Research Electronic Health Records Systems

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