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The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research

An Official Journal of the International Academy of Health Preference Research

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Overview

The Patient provides a venue for scientifically rigorous, timely, and relevant research to promote the development, evaluation and implementation of therapies, technologies, and innovations that will enhance the patient experience. It is an international forum for research that advances and/or applies qualitative or quantitative methods to promote the generation, synthesis, or interpretation of evidence.

As a hybrid journal, The Patient does not charge authors to publish using the traditional subscription-based publishing route, but does offer the option to publish accepted articles open access if authors so wish or if their funders require. This is achieved via the Springer Open Choice™ initiative. More information about this optional route to open access and the associated article processing charge can be found by clicking on the ‘How to publish with us, including Open Access’ link below.

The Patient offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content. Each article is accompanied by a Key Points summary, giving a time-efficient overview of the content to a wide readership. Articles may be accompanied by plain language summaries to assist readers who have some knowledge of, but not in-depth expertise in, the area to understand the scientific content and overall implications of the article. The journal also provides the option to include various types of digital features including animated abstracts, video abstracts, slide decks, audio slides, instructional videos, infographics, podcasts and animations. All additional features are peer reviewed to the same high standard as the article itself. Peer review is conducted using Editorial Manager®, supported by a database of international experts. This database is shared with other Adis journals.

Editor
  • Christopher I. Carswell
Impact factor
3.6 (2022)
5 year impact factor
4.2 (2022)
Submission to first decision (median)
10 days
Downloads
359,118 (2023)

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Electronic ISSN
1178-1661
Print ISSN
1178-1653
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  3. CNKI
  4. CNPIEC
  5. Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
  6. Dimensions
  7. EBSCO
  8. EMBASE
  9. EMCare
  10. Google Scholar
  11. Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
  12. Medline
  13. Naver
  14. OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
  15. Portico
  16. ProQuest
  17. PsycINFO
  18. Reaxys
  19. Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
  20. SCImago
  21. SCOPUS
  22. Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
  23. Semantic Scholar
  24. Social Science Citation Index
  25. TD Net Discovery Service
  26. UGC-CARE List (India)
  27. Wanfang
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