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Implementation Research and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI, DOAJ. Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.
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ISSN 2633-4895Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 296 / 580 | 49th | Q3 |
| Neurology | 126 / 201 | 37th | Q3 |
| Biological Psychiatry | 38 / 54 | 30th | Q3 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 3.1.
Implementation Research and Practice is Q3 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 296 of 580), Q3 in Neurology (rank 126 of 201) and Q3 in Biological Psychiatry (rank 38 of 54), by CiteScore 2025.
Implementation Research and Practice is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.1, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 49th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.877, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 9.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$1,000 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Implementation Research and Practice is published by SAGE Publications Ltd. Its ISSN is 2633-4895.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Implementation Research and Practice has an h-index of 31 and a 2-year mean of 3.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #90 of 570 Scopus journals in Psychiatry and Mental Health.
Implementation Research and Practice published 28 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 52. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 97 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (83.7%), Canada (3%) and Australia (2.2%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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