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 (more information).
The Patient offers a range of additional features designed to increase the visibility, readership and educational value of the journal’s content (more information).
- Editor
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- 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)
Societies and partnerships
Latest articles
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Digital Features
The Patient is able to host a range of digital features, with a number of options available to authors.
Journal information
- Electronic ISSN
- 1178-1661
- Print ISSN
- 1178-1653
- Abstracted and indexed in
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- Baidu
- CLOCKSS
- CNKI
- CNPIEC
- Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
- Dimensions
- EBSCO
- EMBASE
- EMCare
- Google Scholar
- Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Medline
- Naver
- OCLC WorldCat Discovery Service
- Portico
- ProQuest
- PsycINFO
- Reaxys
- Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
- SCImago
- SCOPUS
- Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
- Semantic Scholar
- Social Science Citation Index
- TD Net Discovery Service
- UGC-CARE List (India)
- Wanfang
- Copyright information