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The Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (JECP) is a distinguished international scholarly publication dedicated to the evaluation and the overarching advancement of healthcare practices. It promotes methodologically-rigorous research in any health or related discipline that will interest global readers. JECP is committed to publishing rigorous inquiry. JECP invites submissions spanning all domains of health services research, analysis and evaluation, irrespective of whether they are studied at the population level or a patient-centred approach. JECP encourages submissions proposing novel or refined methods – both conceptual and statistical – for systemic inquiry into clinical practice.
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- 5.4CiteScore
- 2.1Journal Impact Factor
- 27%Acceptance rate
- 23 days Submission to first decision
Please note that JECP is not the right repository for narrowly-focused papers on specific clinical areas of practice, or which report on specific diagnoses, clinical tests or practices that are relevant to only one country (i.e. do not have global relevance). Such submissions are better suited to journals with a targeted readership.
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Articles
The Effect of Internal Entrepreneurship on Patient‐Centered Care Competence in Nursing Services
-  26 May 2025
Optimised Hybrid Attention‐Based Capsule Network Integrated Three‐Pathway Network for Chronic Disease Detection in Retinal Images
-  26 May 2025
The Effect of Assessment of Physiotherapy Practice on the Clinical Practice Performance of Physical Therapy Students in Pediatrics: A Comparative Study
-  26 May 2025
The Use of Puzzles as a Teaching Technique in Nursing Education: A Randomized Controlled Study
-  22 May 2025
Leveraging Qualitative Insights for Dashboard Development to Address Perinatal Health Inequalities in Maternity, Neonatal and Perinatal Services
-  22 May 2025
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Translation, adaptation and validation of instruments or scales for use in cross‐cultural health care research: a clear and user‐friendly guideline
-  268-274
-  28 September 2010
Improving the usefulness of a tool for appraising the quality of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies, the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT)
-  459-467
-  21 February 2018
Design and analysis of pilot studies: recommendations for good practice
-  307-312
-  4 June 2004
Assessment of study quality for systematic reviews: a comparison of the Cochrane Collaboration Risk of Bias Tool and the Effective Public Health Practice Project Quality Assessment Tool: methodological research
-  12-18
-  5 January 2012
On the definition of stigma
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  847-853
-  23 April 2022
Dual process models of clinical reasoning: The central role of knowledge in diagnostic expertise
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  788-796
-  2 June 2024
Improving the usefulness of a tool for appraising the quality of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods studies, the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT)
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  459-467
-  21 February 2018
Sources of bias in observational studies of covid‐19 vaccine effectiveness
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  30-36
-  26 March 2023

Design and analysis of pilot studies: recommendations for good practice
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  307-312
-  4 June 2004
Translation, adaptation and validation of instruments or scales for use in cross‐cultural health care research: a clear and user‐friendly guideline
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  268-274
-  28 September 2010
The struggle of translating science into action: Foundational concepts of implementation science
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  117-126
-  31 March 2017
The impact of huddles on a multidisciplinary healthcare teams' work engagement, teamwork and job satisfaction: A systematic review
- Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
-  382-393
-  17 February 2022
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