Health Expectations

Aims & Scope

Health Expectations promotes critical thinking and informed debate about all aspects of patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in health and social care, health policy and health services research including: • Person-centred care and quality improvement • Patients' participation in decisions about disease prevention and management • Public perceptions of health services • Citizen involvement in health care policy making and priority-setting • Methods for monitoring and evaluating participation • Empowerment and consumerism • Patients' role in safety and quality • Patient and public role in health services research • Co-production (researchers working with patients and the public) of research, health care and policy Health Expectations is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal publishing original research, review articles and critical commentaries.

It includes papers which clarify concepts, develop theories, and critically analyse and evaluate specific policies and practices.

The Journal provides an inter-disciplinary and international forum in which researchers (including PPIE researchers) from a range of backgrounds and expertise can present their work to other researchers, policy-makers, health care professionals, managers, patients and consumer advocates.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Web of Science
• Medline
• PubMed

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Medicine, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal requires an Article Processing Charge (APC) to support open access publishing, covering peer review, editing, and distribution. The current APC is 3,810.00 USD. Learn more.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Mapping the impact of patient and public involvement on health and social care research: a systematic review

  Citation: 1155

  Authors: Jo, Sophie, Carole, Sandra, John, Colin, Rashida

• How to practice person‐centred care: A conceptual framework

  Citation: 680

  Authors: Maria J., Kimberly, Rachel J., Sandra, Hude, Mingshan

• Frameworks for supporting patient and public involvement in research: Systematic review and co‐design pilot

  Citation: 643

  Authors: Trisha, Lisa, Teresa, Alastair, Nick, Ben, Alan

• A measure of informed choice

  Citation: 609

  Authors: Theresa M., Elizabeth, Susan

• Patient and service user engagement in research: a systematic review and synthesized framework

  Citation: 480

  Authors: Nathan D., Juan Pablo, Gabriela J., Zhen, Tarig A., Mohammed, Juan P., Kasey, Rim, Belal, Patricia J., Victor M., M Hassan

• Patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs): A review of generic and condition‐specific measures and a discussion of trends and issues

  Citation: 478

  Authors: Kate, Chiara, Louise A., Janet C., Suzanna B., Lisa E. D., Christopher J., Jeffrey

• The OPTION scale: measuring the extent that clinicians involve patients in decision‐making tasks

  Citation: 409

  Authors: Glyn, Hayley, Adrian, Frances, Michel, Wai‐Yee, Richard

• Assessments of the extent to which health‐care providers involve patients in decision making: a systematic review of studies using the <scp>OPTION</scp> instrument

  Citation: 392

  Authors: Nicolas, Sophie, Hubert, Hugues, Annie, Stéphane, Glyn, France

• A shared treatment decision‐making approach between patients with chronic conditions and their clinicians: the case of diabetes

  Citation: 306

  Authors: Victor M., Amiram, Cathy

• Patient involvement in patient safety: what factors influence patient participation and engagement?

  Citation: 306

  Authors: Rachel E., Rosamond, Nick, Charles A.