Journals and key articles: Implementation science and related fields of study

Database Name

American Journal of Medical Quality

BMC Health Services Research

BMJ Quality and Safety

BMJ Open Quality

Implementation Science

Implementation Research and Practice

Implementation Science Communications

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

The Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC)

Translational Behavioural Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research

• Braithwaite J. (2018). Changing how we think about healthcare improvement. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 361, k2014. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k2014
• Braithwaite, J., Churruca, K., Long, J. C., Ellis, L. A., & Herkes, J. (2018). When complexity science meets implementation science: a theoretical and empirical analysis of systems change. BMC medicine, 16 (1), 63. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1057-z
• Durlak, J. A., & DuPre, E. P. (2008). Implementation matters: a review of research on the influence of implementation on program outcomes and the factors affecting implementation. American journal of community psychology, 41 (3-4), 327–350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-008-9165-0
• Graham, I. D., Logan, J., Harrison, M. B., Straus, S. E., Tetroe, J., Caswell, W., & Robinson, N. (2006). Lost in knowledge translation: time for a map?. The Journal of continuing education in the health professions, 26 (1), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.1002/chp.47
• Powell, B. J., Waltz, T. J., Chinman, M. J., Damschroder, L. J., Smith, J. L., Matthieu, M. M., Proctor, E. K., & Kirchner, J. E. (2015). A refined compilation of implementation strategies: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project. Implementation science : IS, 10, 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-015-0209-1
• Plsek, P. E., & Greenhalgh, T. (2001). Complexity science: The challenge of complexity in health care. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 323(7313), 625–628. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.323.7313.625

• Boaz, A., Hanney, S., Borst, R., O’Shea, A., & Kok, M. (2018). How to engage stakeholders in research: design principles to support improvement. Health research policy and systems, 16 (1), 60. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-018-0337-6
• Damschroder, L. J., Aron, D. C., Keith, R. E., Kirsh, S. R., Alexander, J. A., & Lowery, J. C. (2009). Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science. Implementation science : IS, 4, 50. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-4-50
• Wolfenden, L., Foy, R., Presseau, J., Grimshaw, J. M., Ivers, N. M., Powell, B. J., Taljaard, M., Wiggers, J., Sutherland, R., Nathan, N., Williams, C. M., Kingsland, M., Milat, A., Hodder, R. K., & Yoong, S. L. (2021). Designing and undertaking randomised implementation trials: guide for researchers. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 372, m3721. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3721

• Atkins, L., Francis, J., Islam, R., O’Connor, D., Patey, A., Ivers, N., Foy, R., Duncan, E. M., Colquhoun, H., Grimshaw, J. M., Lawton, R., & Michie, S. (2017). A guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behaviour change to investigate implementation problems. Implementation science : IS, 12 (1), 77. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0605-9

• French, S. D., Green, S. E., O’Connor, D. A., McKenzie, J. E., Francis, J. J., Michie, S., Buchbinder, R., Schattner, P., Spike, N., & Grimshaw, J. M. (2012). Developing theory-informed behaviour change interventions to implement evidence into practice: a systematic approach using the Theoretical Domains Framework. Implementation science : IS, 7, 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-7-38

• Graham, I. D., Logan, J., Harrison, M. B., Straus, S. E., Tetroe, J., Caswell, W., & Robinson, N. (2006). Lost in knowledge translation: time for a map?. The Journal of continuing education in the health professions, 26 (1), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.1002/chp.47
• Harvey, G., & Kitson, A. (2016). PARIHS revisited: from heuristic to integrated framework for the successful implementation of knowledge into practice. Implementation science : IS, 11, 33. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0398-2

• Lynch, E. A., Mudge, A., Knowles, S., Kitson, A. L., Hunter, S. C., & Harvey, G. (2018). “There is nothing so practical as a good theory”: a pragmatic guide for selecting theoretical approaches for implementation projects. BMC health services research, 18 (1), 857. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3671-z

• Michie, S., van Stralen, M. M., & West, R. (2011). The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions. Implementation science : IS, 6, 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-6-42

• Michie, S., Richardson, M., Johnston, M., Abraham, C., Francis, J., Hardeman, W., Eccles, M. P., Cane, J., & Wood, C. E. (2013). The behavior change technique taxonomy (v1) of 93 hierarchically clustered techniques: building an international consensus for the reporting of behavior change interventions. Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 46 (1), 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-013-9486-6

• Moullin, J. C., Dickson, K. S., Stadnick, N. A., Albers, B., Nilsen, P., Broder-Fingert, S., Mukasa, B., & Aarons, G. A. (2020). Ten recommendations for using implementation frameworks in research and practice. Implementation science communications, 1, 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43058-020-00023-7

• Meyers, D. C., Durlak, J. A., & Wandersman, A. (2012). The quality implementation framework: a synthesis of critical steps in the implementation process. American journal of community psychology, 50 (3-4), 462–480. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-012-9522-x
• Nilsen P. (2015). Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks. Implementation science : IS, 10, 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-015-0242-0

• Proctor, E. K., Powell, B. J., & McMillen, J. C. (2013). Implementation strategies: recommendations for specifying and reporting. Implementation science : IS, 8, 139. https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-5908-8-139