Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality and Outcomes

Aims & Scope

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes (MCP:IQ&O) is an open access, digital (online) journal, sponsored by Mayo Clinic and belongs to the Mayo Clinic Proceedings family of journals.

MCP:IQ&O is focused on promoting human well-being by offering a trusted knowledge platform encompassing innovations, quality, and outcomes research across the entire spectrum of the health care ecosystem.

MCP:IQ&O publishes original research, reviews, case series, clinical content, editorials, commentaries, brief reports, special articles, and other short items.

The content of MCP:IQ&O is organized along two broad themes: Measure What Matters and Health Care Futurology. -Measure What Matters: Includes content related to research questions, quality improvement projects, clinical investigations, and narrative and systematic reviews by experts that crisply and pragmatically address current challenges faced by health care system stakeholders including clinicians, educators, system administrators, policy makers, industry, and global health systems. -Health Care Futurology: As a combination of written and audio-visual content, Health Care Futurology provides a bold and unconventional subject matter platform to health care ecosystem stakeholders.

Clinicians, educators, health policy experts, advocacy groups, health-system administrators and members of the biotech, pharma, and medical device industry can meaningfully engage in discussion, dialogue, and opinion writing on challenging, controversial, and disruptive topics including past failures and lessons learned that are expected to shape future health care.

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)
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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 3,000.00 USD. Learn more.

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