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Aims & Scope
Editor in Chief: Tim Woolley, Inuvi, UK
Published in partnership with the Patient Centric Sampling Interest Group CIC
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Healthcare innovation is progressing rapidly, offering unprecedented opportunities to improve patient care. Advances in patient-focused sampling methods, digital health, real-world data, personalized medicine, and patient-reported outcomes are creating new ways to understand patient experiences, lessen burdens, and support more customized healthcare delivery and decision-making. However, this innovation may fall short of its full potential or fail to address the most urgent needs unless systems, research, treatments, and policies are intentionally designed around what matters most to patients.
At present, many points of interaction between patients and the healthcare system are suboptimal; for example, where provision of samples or data is unduly burdensome. In other cases, patients are not meaningfully involved in areas that would benefit from their input, such as defining patient-relevant endpoints for clinical trials. In this context, a dedicated forum for high-quality evidence, methods, and perspectives on patient-centricity is essential to ensure that innovation genuinely serves patient needs.
Published by Becaris Publishing in partnership with the Patient Centric Sampling Interest Group (PCSIG), the open access, peer-reviewed Journal of Patient Centricity (ISSN: 2978-8579) provides a rapid-publication platform for research, review and opinion across all aspects of patient centricity. The journal seeks to advance patient-centric approaches in the most impactful ways possible, helping transform innovation, diagnosis and treatment as healthcare continues to evolve.
Articles published in the Journal of Patient Centricity cover key areas such as:
- Patient involvement in research design, priority setting and endpoint selection
- Patient-centric sampling, point of care and near-patient testing technologies
Through thorough evaluation and broad coverage, the Journal of Patient Centricity offers its audience (including researchers, clinicians, patients, policymakers, and industry professionals) essential data and insights to advance the field.
The Journal of Patient Centricity is published alongside the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research and The Evidence Base, a free-to-access online hub providing the latest news, opinions and insights into topics including real-world data and evidence, patient-generated data, health technology assessment, patient access to healthcare, and more.
The journal welcomes unsolicited article proposals.
Journal pricing information
The Journal of Patient Centricity is an open access journal, with all articles requiring the payment of the open access article processing charge (APC) on acceptance for publication. All articles are subject to our standard peer-review process and will be accepted or rejected based on their own merit. APC depends on article type, as follows:
| Article type | Article processing charge (in US$) |
Externally peer-reviewed articles, e.g.:
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$3,000*† |
Non-externally peer-reviewed articles, e.g.:
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$1,950*† |
| Plain Language Summary of Publication | $5,200*† |
| *Plus VAT where applicable. †An additional $2,000 is applied for authors opting for a CC-BY license type where this is not mandated by their funding body. |
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The APC should be paid within 30 days by the author or other funding body. The source of funding for open access fees should be included in the Financial & Competing Interests Disclosure statement.
Journal articles are published under the CC BY-NC-ND license as standard. Under certain circumstances (see here for further details), certain articles may be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. Where a CC-BY license is preferred but not mandated, please indicate this on the Open Access License Form (additional fees will apply, as noted in the table above). For any queries, please contact the Editor.
Discounts on APCs
Authors based in countries (or who have received their funding from countries) in Group A or Group B of the Research4Life list (https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/) are eligible to apply for a waiver on APCs. Authors who believe they are eligible for a waiver, should request this when submitting their article, and should provide the journal editor with details of their affiliation or funding source as appropriate (including whether the funding body has policies related to mandatory open access publication). Such discounts cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer, nor can they be requested once the manuscript has been entered into the peer-review process. Discounts are granted at the Editor’s discretion.
Rapid Review & Rapid Publication options
The Journal of Patient Centricity also has the following optional services:
| Optional service | Description | Fee (in US$) |
| Rapid Review | Accelerating the entire process from submission through peer review to publication, the Rapid Review option provides prioritized peer review and expedited online publication of accepted articles. Rapid Review can be selected by authors during article submission. |
$3,900* |
| Rapid Publication | Following article acceptance, the Rapid Publication option provides online publication within 3 weeks of acceptance. Rapid Publication can be selected by authors once an article has been accepted. |
$1,950* |
| *Plus VAT where applicable. | ||
The Rapid Review/Publication fee should be paid within 30 days by the author or other funding body. The source of funding for the fee should be included in the Financial & Competing Interests Disclosure statement.
Please note: the rapid options are not available for Letters (Letter to the Editor or Letter in Reply).