Department Public Health, Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
Front Public Health. 2021 Apr 30;9:639192. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.639192. eCollection 2021.
In implementation science (IS), conducting well-targeted and reproducible literature searches is challenging due to non-specific and varying terminology that is fragmented over multiple disciplines. A list of journals that publish IS-relevant content for use in search strings can support this process. We conducted a cross-sectional online survey of 56 Australian, European, and North American IS experts to identify and prioritize relevant journals that publish IS articles. Journals' relevance was assessed by providing each with a list of 12 journals, to which they were encouraged to add additional journal names and comments as free text. We also assessed which journals had published special IS-focused issues-identified PubMed and Google searches-over the last 20 years. Data were analyzed descriptively. Between February 28 and March 15, 2020, a purposive sample of 34/56 experts participated in the survey (response rate: 60.7%). and were perceived as relevant by 97.1% of participants; other journals' relevance varied internationally. Experts proposed 50 additional journals from various clinical fields and health science disciplines. We identified 12 calls and 53 special issues on IS published within various journals and research fields. Experts' comments confirmed the described challenges in identifying IS literature. This report presents experts' ratings of IS journals, which can be included in strategies supporting searches of IS evidence. However, challenges in identifying IS evidence remain geographically and interdisciplinary. Further investment is needed to develop reproducible search strings to capture IS evidence as an important step in improving IS research quality.
在实施科学（IS）领域，由于术语不具体且不断变化，且分布在多个学科中，因此进行针对性强且可重复的文献搜索具有挑战性。可以使用一份列出发表与 IS 相关内容的期刊的清单来支持这一过程。我们对 56 名来自澳大利亚、欧洲和北美的 IS 专家进行了横断面在线调查，以确定和优先考虑发表 IS 文章的相关期刊。通过向每个期刊提供一份包含 12 种期刊的清单来评估期刊的相关性，并鼓励他们以自由文本形式添加其他期刊名称和评论。我们还评估了过去 20 年来哪些期刊发表了专门针对 IS 的特刊——通过 PubMed 和 Google 搜索确定。使用描述性分析方法对数据进行分析。在 2020 年 2 月 28 日至 3 月 15 日期间，56 名专家中有 34 名（回应率：60.7%）参与了调查。和被 97.1%的参与者认为是相关的；其他期刊的相关性在国际上有所不同。专家从各种临床领域和健康科学学科中提出了 50 种其他期刊。我们在各种期刊和研究领域中确定了 12 次关于 IS 的征稿和 53 期特刊。专家的评论证实了在确定 IS 文献方面所描述的挑战。本报告介绍了专家对 IS 期刊的评价，这些评价可纳入支持 IS 证据搜索的策略中。然而，在确定 IS 证据方面仍然存在地理和跨学科的挑战。需要进一步投资来开发可重复的搜索字符串，以捕获 IS 证据，作为提高 IS 研究质量的重要步骤。
