--- title: "Implementation Science: impact and top papers" description: "Implementation Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.08 and an h-index of 202 in OpenAlex, #1 of 28 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 67 papers, and its papers received 27,307 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "Implementation Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.08 and an h-index of 202 in OpenAlex, #1 of 28 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Implementation Science - 1 paper in the last 7 days - category: Health Economics and Policy - publisher: BioMed Central - ISSN 1748-5908 - Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/13012 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1748-5908 - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S76880069 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Health Economics and Policy: [Health Economics and Policy dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Health Economics and Policy journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Top health economics and policy institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Top funders of health economics and policy research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Companies in health economics and policy research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/health-economics-and-policy.md) · [Open access in health economics and policy journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/health-economics-and-policy.md) ## Key findings - Implementation Science has a 2-year mean citedness of 13.08 and an h-index of 202 in OpenAlex, #1 of 28 tracked health economics and policy journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 67 papers, and its papers received 27,307 citations. - Implementation Science published 5 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #211 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: University of Ottawa (2), Université de Sherbrooke (2) and Brown University (1). - Countries: United States (4), Canada (3) and United Kingdom (2). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, Implementation Science published 5 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “HPV vaccination” (1), “adaptation guidance” (1) and “cancer control” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 13.08 | | h-index | 202 | | i10-index | 1,923 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 2,360 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 262,298 | | Rank among tracked health economics and policy journals | [#1 of 28](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/health-economics-and-policy.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 66 | 25,003 | | 2025 | 67 | 27,307 | | 2024 | 82 | 32,038 | | 2023 | 73 | 27,233 | | 2022 | 83 | 28,048 | | 2021 | 110 | 28,047 | | 2020 | 112 | 22,564 | | 2019 | 113 | 15,225 | | 2018 | 162 | 12,661 | | 2017 | 153 | 10,682 | | 2016 | 37 | 7,977 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://link.springer.com/journal/13012 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | HPV vaccination | 1 | | 2 | adaptation guidance | 1 | | 3 | cancer control | 1 | | 4 | cancer mortality trends | 1 | | 5 | co-creation | 1 | | 6 | colorectal cancer screening | 1 | | 7 | complex interventions | 1 | | 8 | contingency management | 1 | | 9 | equity-deserving groups | 1 | | 10 | evidence-based practice | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-30 | [Facilitation and incentivization improved speed of contingency management adoption, exposure, and submission](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01549-5) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | Sara J. Becker, Tim Janssen, Kira DiClemente-Bosco et al. | Northwestern University; Brown University; The Ohio State University | | 2026-10-21 | [Examining the conceptual and instrumental use of the knowledge-to-action framework: a citation analysis and scoping review](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01547-7) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | Christine E. Cassidy, Erin McConnell, Laura Kennedy et al. | Dalhousie University; Izaak Walton Killam Health Centre; University College Cork; … | | 2026-10-09 | [A process-driven framework for creating equity-focused adaptation guidance for interventions or implementation strategies: the Adaptation with Equity (AwE) Framework](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01541-z) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | Myra Piat, Megan Wainwright, Ian D. Graham et al. | Douglas Mental Health University Institute; McGill University; Durham University; … | | 2026-10-08 | [External facilitation for implementing complex interventions: a realist synthesis](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01544-w) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | Catherine Hudon, Mathieu Bisson, Shelley Anne Doucet et al. | Université de Sherbrooke; University of New Brunswick; Université de Montréal | | 2026-10-06 | [Differences in the time to implementation of evidence-based cancer control practices in the United States](https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-026-01542-y) | [Implementation Science](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/implementation-science.md) | Eduardo J. Santiago‐Rodríguez, April Oh, Gila I. Neta | National Cancer Institute | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Implementation Science. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. 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