Implementation Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Implementation Science is 16. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Family cascade screening for equitable identification of familial hypercholesterolemia: study protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation type III randomized controlled trial3183
Strategies to implement multifactorial falls prevention interventions in community-dwelling older persons: a systematic review415
Optimizing vaccine uptake in sub-Saharan Africa: a collaborative COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Madagascar using an adaptive approach314
Mapping implementation strategies to reach community-dwelling older adults in Northwest Switzerland181
Evaluating the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to reduce low-value care in adults hospitalized following trauma: a protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial124
Top-level leaders and implementation strategies to support organizational diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) interventions: a qualitative study of top-level DEIB leaders in healthcare 107
Making implementation science more efficient: capitalizing on opportunities beyond the field100
Evaluating the implementation of integrated knowledge translation in a multi-country research consortium in Sub-Saharan Africa – a mixed methods comparative case study96
Strategies for enacting health policy codesign: a scoping review and direction for research81
Correction: Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals80
The Practical, Robust Implementation and Sustainability (PRISM)-capabilities model for use of Artificial Intelligence in community-engaged implementation science research79
Understanding pathways from implementation to sustainment: a longitudinal, mixed methods analysis of promising practices implemented in the Veterans Health Administration73
Audit and feedback to reduce unwarranted clinical variation at scale: a realist study of implementation strategy mechanisms70
Optimizing qualitative methods in implementation research: a resource for editors, reviewers, authors, and researchers to dispel ten common misperceptions about qualitative research methods69
Proceedings of the 5th UK Implementation Science Research Conference67
Monitoring systems for public health program and policy implementation in community settings: features and suggested actions from a scoping review64
Implementing prescriber-pharmacist collaboration to improve evidence-based medication prescribing using asynchronous, non-interruptive electronic health record notifications63
Revisiting the policy ecology framework for implementation of evidence-based practices in mental health settings59
Strategies for de-implementation of low-value care—a scoping review59
Effects of implementation strategies on nursing practice and patient outcomes: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis59
Assessing the comparative effectiveness of ECHO and coaching implementation strategies in a jail/provider MOUD implementation trial53
Implementing traumatic brain injury screening in behavioral health treatment settings: results of an explanatory sequential mixed-methods investigation52
The relative value of Pre-Implementation stages for successful implementation of evidence-informed programs50
Evaluation of research co-design in health: a systematic overview of reviews and development of a framework50
Correction: Incentivizing appropriate malaria case management in the private sector: a study protocol for two linked cluster randomized controlled trials to evaluate provider- and client-focused inter46
Achieving cardiovascular health equity in community mental health: study protocol for a cluster-randomized hybrid Type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial46
Implementation fidelity, student outcomes, and cost-effectiveness of train-the-trainer strategies for Masters-level therapists in urban schools: results from a cluster randomized trial46
Sustainable deimplementation of continuous pulse oximetry monitoring in children hospitalized with bronchiolitis: study protocol for the Eliminating Monitor Overuse (EMO) type III effectiveness-deimpl43
Influence of physician networks on the implementation of pharmaceutical alternatives to a toxic drug supply in British Columbia42
Implementing pharmacist-prescriber collaboration to improve evidence-based anticoagulant use: a randomized trial40
Ready to screen implementation trial protocol: a cluster randomized implementation trial comparing a bundled implementation strategy versus a simple implementation strategy to improve intention to scr36
Implementation outcomes from the Hypertension Treatment in Nigeria program: results from a type 2 hybrid interrupted time series trial35
Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations35
Successful adoption of an advance care planning evidence-based practice: impact of clinical champion and site factors35
The effectiveness of a knowledge translation intervention on the implementation of NEWS2 in nursing homes, a pragmatic cluster RCT34
Integrating knowledge and action: learnings from an implementation program for food security and food sovereignty with First Nations communities within Canada32
Supporting teams with designing for dissemination and sustainability: the design, development, and usability of a digital interactive platform31
Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health30
Required sample size to detect mediation in 3-level implementation studies30
Process evaluation of two large randomized controlled trials to understand factors influencing family physicians’ use of antibiotic audit and feedback reports29
Community-engaged optimization of COVID-19 rapid evaluation and testing experiences: roll-out implementation optimization trial28
Partisan differences in the effects of economic evidence and local data on legislator engagement with dissemination materials about behavioral health: a dissemination trial28
Identifying barriers and facilitators to successful implementation of computerized clinical decision support systems in hospitals: a NASSS framework-informed scoping review27
A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-202227
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health27
De-implementation strategy to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for ambulatory HIV-infected patients with upper respiratory tract infections in Mozambique: a study protocol of a cluster rand27
Sustaining the collaborative chronic care model in outpatient mental health: a matrixed multiple case study27
Publisher Correction: A systematic review of experimentally tested implementation strategies across health and human service settings: evidence from 2010-202226
The MOHMQuit (Midwives and Obstetricians Helping Mothers to Quit Smoking) Trial: protocol for a stepped-wedge implementation trial to improve best practice smoking cessation support in public antenata25
Scaling up a brief alcohol intervention to prevent HIV infection in Vietnam: a cluster randomized, implementation trial25
Effect of core versus enhanced implementation strategies on adherence to a clinical pathway for managing anxiety and depression in cancer patients in routine care: a cluster randomised controlled tria25
Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: implementation strategies derived from normalization process theory23
Getting to Implementation: applying data-driven implementation strategies to improve guideline concordant surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma23
Implementing an AI-enhanced clinical decision support system for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: a survey-based randomized controlled trial of antibiotic precision and impact on survival22
Implementing collaborative practices in healthcare settings using champions: a scoping review21
Implementing Germ Defence digital behaviour change intervention via all primary care practices in England to reduce respiratory infections during the COVID-19 pandemic: an efficient cluster randomised21
Cost analysis of implementing a community health worker-led weight reduction randomized-controlled trial among prediabetic south asian patients at primary care sites in NYC21
Correction: Firm, yet flexible: a fidelity debate paper with two case examples21
Alarm with care—a de-implementation strategy to reduce fall prevention alarm use in US hospitals: a study protocol for a hybrid 2 effectiveness-implementation trial21
Evidence for objects of implementation in healthcare: considerations for Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications21
Promises and pitfalls in implementation science from the perspective of US-based researchers: learning from a pre-mortem19
Applied methods for matching implementation strategies to determinants: a scoping review of scientific and grey literature, and qualitative exploration of practice experiences19
Navigating qualitative methods choices in dissemination and implementation research19
Inter-organizational alignment and implementation outcomes in integrated mental healthcare for children and adolescents: a cross-sectional observational study19
Improving outcomes for hospitalised First Nations peoples through greater cultural safety and better communication: the Communicate Study Partnership study protocol19
Barriers and enablers in the implementation of a quality improvement program for acute coronary syndromes in hospitals: a qualitative analysis using the consolidated framework for implementation resea18
Impact of an adapted diabetes prevention program in a spanish primary care setting: protocol for a type II hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster-randomized trial (ALADIM)17
Properties of adaptive, cluster-randomised controlled trials with few clusters: a simulation study17
Can clinician champions reduce potentially inappropriate medications in people living with dementia? Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial17
Correction: Evidence based QUality Improvement for Prescribing Stewardship in ICU (EQUIPS-ICU): protocol for type III hybrid implementation-effectiveness study17
Economic evaluation of implementation science outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review16
Scaling up an intervention to protect preterm infants from neurodevelopmental disabilities — findings from a qualitative process evaluation comparing standard with enhanced quality improvement support16
Implementing a school-based HIV prevention program during public health emergencies: lessons learned in The Bahamas16
The Guideline Language and Format Instrument (GLAFI): development process and international needs assessment survey16
Characteristics and impact of interventions to support healthcare providers’ compliance with guideline recommendations for breast cancer: a systematic literature review16
A comparative effectiveness trial for universal psychosocial screening with the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) across 18 childhood cancer programs in the United States: adoption, penetration, and 16
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