Research Involvement and Engagement

Aims and scope

Research Involvement and Engagement is an interdisciplinary, health and social care journal focussing on patient and wider involvement and engagement in research, at all stages. The journal is co-produced by all key stakeholders, including patients, academics, policy makers and service users.

Focussing on patient and public involvement and engagement in health and social care research, we welcome research articles, methodologies, protocols and commentaries, particularly those with patient authors. All submissions are peer-reviewed by patients and academics and are edited by a patient and an academic editor, who have equal weight in editorial decisions. We encourage submissions from anyone who is committed to delivering the patient or public voice in research.

A co-produced journal

Research Involvement and Engagement co-produces the journal, involving academics, policy makers, patients and service-users, with a unique governance structure. We welcome articles from anyone involved or engaged with research into supporting, encouraging or delivering the patient/public voice in research processes or structures

Research Involvement and Engagement is a Patients Included accredited journal. Full details on how we meet the Patients Included journal charter clauses can be found here.

Nature Awards for Inclusive Health Research: Collection for the Journal of Research Involvement and Engagement

Edited by:
Heidi Surridge, BA (Hons), MA, National Institute for Health and Care Research, UK
Akinlabi Kazeem Jimoh, BSc, MSc, Medical Physiology, MPH Health Promotion and Health Education, Nature Africa, Nigeria

Please, note that this Collection does not accept submissions from non-invited authors.

Submission Status: Closed

Instructions for Authors: Mandatory requirements for all submissions

• Plain English Summary must be included in addition to the Abstract for all article types.

• GRIPP2 Form checklist is required for all research articles reporting patient and public involvement. It should be provided as an additional file and should be referenced in the text.

Please ensure that your manuscript meets the requirements above prior to submission. For more information, please see our submission guidelines.

Reviewer guidelines for Research Involvement and Engagement

All submissions to Research Involvement and Engagement are peer reviewed by patients and academics. Following feedback from our patient and wider reviewer community we have developed our reviewer guidelines to include details on how peer review works in the journal, links to training resources and example reviews, and points to consider when writing a review. We recommend all of our reviewers, both patients and academics, familiarize themselves with these guidelines.

Building the evidence base for the best public involvement in clinical trials

Editors-in-Chief Sophie Staniszewska and Richard Stephens highlight the importance of patient and public involvement in clinical trials in this blog for International Clinical Trials Day.

Researcher and partner perspectives on the relationship between engagement in research and three uses of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research study findings

Authors: Maureen E. Maurer, Mary E. Lavelle, Tandrea Hilliard-Boone, Karen Frazier, Danielle Agraviador, Rachel Mosbacher, Laura Forsythe and Kristin L. Carman

Content type: Research 14 October 2024
The lived experience of co-production: Reflective accounts from the InCLUDE project

Authors: Shayma Izzidien, Rachael Stemp, Sakab Akram, Sabbir Ahmed, Alay Rangel-Cristales, Karen Irvine, Shivani Sharma and Nick Midgley

Content type: Research 14 October 2024
Mechanisms for co-designing and co-producing health and social care: a realist synthesis

Authors: Daniel Masterson, Bertil Lindenfalk, Sofia Kjellström, Glenn Robert and Marlene Ockander

Content type: Review 10 October 2024
Patient and public involvement in an evidence synthesis project: description of and reflection on involvement

Authors: Katie Thomson, Alex Todhunter-Brown, Marian C. Brady, Pauline Campbell, Liam Dorris, Susan M. Hunter, Donald J. Nicolson and Christine Hazelton

Content type: Methodology 8 October 2024
Inclusion of people with multiple long-term conditions in pregnancy research: patient, public and stakeholder involvement and engagement in a randomised controlled trial

Authors: Zoë Vowles, Danielle C. Ashworth, Rebecca L. Barron, Frances Conti-Ramsden, Hannah Wilson, Lisa Leighton, Louise Wall, Cherrelle Walter, Jenny Myers and Lucy C. Chappell

Content type: Research 7 October 2024

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Family perspectives of COVID-19 research

Authors: Shelley M. Vanderhout, Catherine S. Birken, Peter Wong, Sarah Kelleher, Shannon Weir and Jonathon L. Maguire

Content type: Commentary 30 November 2020
Using qualitative Health Research methods to improve patient and public involvement and engagement in research

Authors: Danielle E. Rolfe, Vivian R. Ramsden, Davina Banner and Ian D. Graham

Content type: Commentary 13 December 2018
A generative co-design framework for healthcare innovation: development and application of an end-user engagement framework

Authors: M. Bird, M. McGillion, E. M. Chambers, J. Dix, C. J. Fajardo, M. Gilmour, K. Levesque, A. Lim, S. Mierdel, C. Ouellette, A. N. Polanski, S. V. Reaume, C. Whitmore and N. Carter

Content type: Methodology 1 March 2021
Framework, principles and recommendations for utilising participatory methodologies in the co-creation and evaluation of public health interventions

Authors: Calum F. Leask, Marlene Sandlund, Dawn A. Skelton, Teatske M. Altenburg, Greet Cardon, Mai J. M. Chinapaw, Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij, Maite Verloigne and Sebastien F. M. Chastin

Content type: Methodology 9 January 2019
A patient and public involvement (PPI) toolkit for meaningful and flexible involvement in clinical trials – a work in progress

Authors: Heather J. Bagley, Hannah Short, Nicola L. Harman, Helen R. Hickey, Carrol L. Gamble, Kerry Woolfall, Bridget Young and Paula R. Williamson

Content type: Research article 27 April 2016

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Peer review taxonomy

Research Involvement and Engagement and Springer Nature are participating in a pilot of STM's Working Group on Peer Review Taxonomy.

More publishers are adopting open peer review as an operating model. STM, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, has identified a need to promote the adoption of standard definitions and terminology in peer review practices across all publishers. An agreed peer review taxonomy will help make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent and more comparable between different journals.

Taxonomy:

Identity transparency:	All identities visible
Reviewer interacts with:	Editor
Review information published:	Review reports, reviewer identities

We would welcome your feedback on the Peer Review Taxonomy Pilot - please fill out this short survey.

Indexing

We are pleased to announce that Research Involvement and Engagement has been accepted for indexing with Scopus. Articles published in the journal will appear in Scopus in due course.

Thank you to our peer reviewers

The editors and staff of Research Involvement and Engagement would like to thank warmly the academic and patient reviewers whose comments have helped to shape the journal.

Research Involvement and Engagement

Aims and scope

A co-produced journal

Nature Awards for Inclusive Health Research: Collection for the Journal of Research Involvement and Engagement

Instructions for Authors: Mandatory requirements for all submissions

Reviewer guidelines for Research Involvement and Engagement

Building the evidence base for the best public involvement in clinical trials

Articles

Researcher and partner perspectives on the relationship between engagement in research and three uses of patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research study findings

The lived experience of co-production: Reflective accounts from the InCLUDE project

Mechanisms for co-designing and co-producing health and social care: a realist synthesis

Patient and public involvement in an evidence synthesis project: description of and reflection on involvement

Inclusion of people with multiple long-term conditions in pregnancy research: patient, public and stakeholder involvement and engagement in a randomised controlled trial

Family perspectives of COVID-19 research

Using qualitative Health Research methods to improve patient and public involvement and engagement in research

A generative co-design framework for healthcare innovation: development and application of an end-user engagement framework

Framework, principles and recommendations for utilising participatory methodologies in the co-creation and evaluation of public health interventions

A patient and public involvement (PPI) toolkit for meaningful and flexible involvement in clinical trials – a work in progress

Peer review taxonomy

Indexing

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