Interprofessional Education and Practice

Because deciding which journal to publish your work in can be a daunting task, we have created a guide to provide information about selected journals that publish on interprofessional practice or education.

Access the Publication Venues for IPE Scholarship guide. 

This spreadsheet includes information about the journals' scope, citation metrics, open access publishing options, publication fees, and the speed of the publication process.

A few important notes to consider: 

• This guide is updated annually every summer. Because publication fees can change at the journal's discretion at any time, it is still the responsibility of the authors to confirm costs before making any important budgetary decisions. 
• Some journals publish only open access, and some offer open access publishing as optional. For more information about whether to publish open access, check out Frequently Asked Questions about Open Access from the U-M Library. 
• We last reviewed the list of journals that appeared on this list in August 2024. Our selection criteria was as follows: 
  1. The journal published 10 or more articles with the word interprofessional in their titles from 2020-2024, according to a search of the multidisciplinary database Scopus, and/or if the journal published 2 or more IPE-focused articles by U-M authors from 2020-2024,
  2. and the journal is NOT limited to publishing on a specific subspeciality (such as geriatrics, oncology, etc.). 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us at THL-IPE-Team@umich.edu.

Does the journal consider topics like yours?

Use the journal's scope and author guidelines to determine whether your topic is a good fit for that journal.

Does the journal publish the type of manuscript best suited to your scholarship?

Check the journal sections and types of manuscripts accepted to ensure the journal is a good fit for your scholarship. If you need more information than is provided in the author guidelines, browse the journal to see what it has published.

Have you followed all of the author guidelines?

 Following all of the author guidelines provided may improve your chances of getting your manuscript accepted. The Journal of Interprofessional Care provides a terminology list for interprofessional topics that submitting authors should follow.

The Writer's Craft series in Perspectives on Medical Education is led by Dr. Lorelei Lingard, the Keynote Speaker at our 2019 Health Professions Education Day. The series offers tips to improve Energy, Clarity, and Persuasiveness in health professions educators' writing.

Selected articles from the Writer's Craft series:

• Lingard L. Joining a conversation: the problem/gap/hook heuristic. Perspect Med Educ. 2015;4(5):252-253. doi:10.1007/s40037-015-0211-y
• Lingard L. Collaborative writing: Strategies and activities for writing productively together. Perspect Med Educ. 2021;10(3):163-166. doi:10.1007/s40037-021-00668-7
• Lingard L. Does your discussion realize its potential?. Perspect Med Educ. 2017;6(5):344-346. doi:10.1007/s40037-017-0377-6

Consider using JANE: The Journal/Author Name Estimator. Simply copy-paste your drafted abstract into the search box, and JANE will search PubMed to identify journals that have published on similar topics.

Alternatively, try a Scopus search. Pick a few important keywords that describe your manuscript's topic, and run a title search for those keywords. Click "Analyze results" on the right-hand side of the search results page. Then click "Documents per year by source," and you'll see a list of journals that publish on that topic most frequently.