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Aims and scope
Health Research Policy and Systems covers all aspects of the organisation and use of health research – including agenda setting, building health research capacity, and how research as a whole benefits decision makers, practitioners in health and related fields, and society at large.
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Developing pathways for community-led research with big data: a content analysis of stakeholder interviews
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Using RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in Healthcare) to evaluate the reporting quality of WHO guidelines
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Individual, health system, and contextual barriers and facilitators for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines: a systematic metareview
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Contributions of information and communications technology to future health systems and Universal Health Coverage: application of Japan’s experiences
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The application of systems thinking in health: why use systems thinking?
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The role of NGOs in global health research for development
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The utilisation of health research in policy-making: concepts, examples and methods of assessment
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The 10 largest public and philanthropic funders of health research in the world: what they fund and how they distribute their funds
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A systematic review of implementation frameworks of innovations in healthcare and resulting generic implementation framework
Featured article
Health Research Policy and Systems (2018) 16:4
The authors aim to identify the top priority issues that impede the conduct, reporting and use of economic evaluation as well as potential solutions as an input for future research topics by the international Decision Support Initiative and other movements.
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Editors-in-Chief
Fadi El-Jardali, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Tari Turner, Monash University, Australia
Featured supplement
Health Research Policy and Systems (2017) 15(Suppl 2):109
The Theory of Change (ToC) is a management and evaluation tool supporting critical thinking in the design, implementation and evaluation of development programmes. The ToC development and revision process helped Future Health Systems research teams to reflect on, and make their assumptions and mental models about their respective interventions explicit.
This article is part of the Supplement on Engaging Stakeholders in Implementation Research: tools, approaches, and lessons learned from application.
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Published in collaboration with the World Health Organization
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108 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only
56 days to first decision for all manuscripts
164 days from submission to acceptance
34 days from acceptance to publicationCitation Impact
2.218 - 2-year Impact Factor
2.863 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.130 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
0.935 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)Usage
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