Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education (JRIPE) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that disseminates theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and evidence-based knowledge to inform interprofessional practice, education, and research to improve health care delivery, quality of care, and health status for individuals, families and communities.The journal adopts the CAIPE definition of Interprofessional Education as “occasions when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care” (CAIPE, 1997 revised). Occasions for this kind of interactions among professionals include but are not limited to professional contacts within and between specific health or educational agencies, and community contexts. Interactions among professionals from the same profession are also within the scope of the journal when their analysis contributes to understanding and/or providing the evidence for the processes involved in interprofessional practice and education (IPE).The journal supports IPE knowledge development through sound methodology and experimentation. A central premise of the journal is that there can be no sound experiment without adequate data, and no adequate data without sound theories to guide their collection. In turn IPE theories should aim at explaining how IPE works based on testable assertions and hypotheses. The mainstay of the journal is:1) To improve understanding of the processes involved in IPE and how they are linked to specific outcomes defined at the level of the patient, the family, the health care team, the health care organization, and the community level; 2) To stimulate the development of the evidence related to these processes;3) To facilitate knowledge exchange between those who fund and conduct research, and those who use and apply research in practice and policy settings.

 

Section Policies

Articles: Theory

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Articles: Methodology

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Articles: Empirical Research

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Articles: Reflection

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Articles: Hypothesis

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Commentary

Editors
  • Marilyn Bittman
  • Hassan Soubhi
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Book Review

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Video

Editors
  • Hassan Soubhi
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Peer Review Process

Normally, two peer reviewers will recommend on each submitted manuscript. The editor will use his or her judgment to go to a third reviewer should there be a substantial difference of opinion in the reviewers’ recommendations. The system used will be double blind: neither the reviewer nor the author will know the identity of the other.

 

Open Access Policy

 

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Editorial Board

 

Peter Baker, University of Queensland
Amy Blue, Medical University of South Carolina
Barbara Brandt, University of Minnesota
Marcel D’Eon, University of Saskatchewan
Leslie Hall, University of Missouri Health Care
Alexandra Harris, College of Health Sciences
Liz Harrison, University of Saskatchewan
Robin Harvan, University of Colorado Denver
Debra Humphris, University of Southampton
Susanne Lindqvist, University of East Anglia
Kevin Lyons, Thomas Jefferson University
Susan Meyer, University of Pittsburgh
Grace Mickelson, Provincial Health Services Authority
Pamela Mitchell, University of Washington
Louise Nasmith, University of British Columbia
Ivy Oandasan, University of Toronto
Carole Orchard, University of Western Ontario
Enette Pauzé, University of Toronto
Margaret Purden, McGill University
Sylvia Rodger, University of Queensland
Joan Sargeant, Dalhousie University
Dennis Sharpe, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Esther Suter, Calgary Health Region
Pamela Wener, University of Manitoba

 

 

Photo Credits

 

  • Stethoscope By Michael Tam, Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike, 2.0
  • Generic Book By Helga Kopp, Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike, 2.0
  • Generic Crowd By David Sim, Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution, 2.0 Generic