Evaluation & the Health Professions

Evaluation & the Health Professions is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal that puts evaluation method, instrument construction and statistical technique ahead of any single clinical specialty.《评估与卫生专业》是一份同行评议的季刊，重心放在评估方法、量表建构与统计技术，服务于多个卫生职业领域。

SAGE Publications of Thousand Oaks, California issues the title four times a year, and its editorial line asks authors to write instruments and designs so that readers outside the research team can audit them.该刊由加州 Thousand Oaks 的 SAGE Publications 每年出版 4 期，编辑方针要求作者把量表与研究设计写得能被团队之外的读者复核。

The field it occupies sits between health services research and programme evaluation, so one volume mixes instrument validation, intervention testing and policy commentary side by side.它的位置处在卫生服务研究与项目评估之间，同一卷里并列量表验证，干预检验与政策评论三类文章。

Clarivate's 2025 Journal Citation Reports give the title a Journal Impact Factor of 1.9 with a five-year value of 2.3, and place it in the third quartile of two health categories across the science and social science editions.Clarivate 2025 年《期刊引证报告》给出的影响因子为 1.9，5 年值 2.3，在科学版与社会科学版并列的两个卫生类目里均属第三分区。

Scope

• The publisher's aims text promises health-related professionals state-of-the-art methodological, measurement and statistical tools, which fixes method as the journal's first deliverable.出版方的宗旨页写明为卫生相关专业人员提供前沿的方法学，测量与统计工具，方法本身即期刊的首要交付物。
• Conceptualizing the etiology of health promotion and of health problems is named in the same sentence, steering work toward why an outcome appears rather than only whether a treatment worked.同一段文字还要求厘清健康促进与健康问题的病因，把研究引向结果为何出现，而不止于干预是否奏效。
• Developing, implementing and evaluating health programmes, teaching services, training services and health products are listed as the objects of that work, spanning dimensions from substance use to ageing.被评估的对象列为健康项目以及教学与培训服务和健康产品的开发，实施与评估，跨度从物质使用到老龄化。
• Scale construction and validation form the densest block, with recent papers on a social support scale for persons with mental illness and on the Spanish adaptation of the Illness Management and Recovery Scale.量表编制与验证是最密集的一块，近年刊出精神障碍者社会支持量表的测评，以及疾病管理与康复量表的西班牙语改编。
• Cross-cultural adaptation and measurement invariance are treated as methods in their own right, and Turkish, Italian, Malay, Bangla and Latin American samples each supplied a validation paper across 2024 to 2026.跨文化调适与测量不变性被当作独立的方法议题，2024 至 2026 年间土耳其语与意大利语以及马来语，孟加拉语和拉丁美洲样本各供出一篇验证研究。
• Short forms and item reduction recur, among them score standardization of the European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire short form and a comparison of three item lengths of a depression, anxiety and stress measure.简版与删题研究反复出现，包括欧洲健康素养量表简版的分数标准化，以及抑郁焦虑压力量表三种题长的比较。
• Item response theory supplies the technical apparatus in several studies, one of them deciding whether burnout among counselling trainees should be read as unidimensional or multidimensional.项目反应理论为多篇论文提供技术装置，其中一篇据此判断咨询受训者倦怠应当读作单维还是多维结构。
• Programme evaluation designs are judged on their own terms, so pilot work reporting effectiveness, acceptability and feasibility stands beside single case designs and simulation studies of effect size and study length in interrupted time series analyses.项目评估设计按其自身标准被评判，报告有效性与可接受性以及可行性的试点研究与单被试设计并列，另有中断时间序列分析中效应量与研究长度的模拟研究。
• Implementation science holds a visible share of recent issues, particularly training and technical assistance systems built to move evidence-based practice into community agencies, including work on collective impact and on equity.实施科学在近年的期刊中占明显份额，聚焦于把循证实践送入社区机构的培训与技术支持体系，涉及集体影响力与公平性。
• Evaluation of the health workforce runs through the table of contents, covering professionalism in residency training, the learning environment for professional conduct and the reporting of notifiable conduct by Australian practitioners.卫生队伍评估贯穿目录，涉及住院医师培训中的职业精神，职业行为的学习环境，以及澳大利亚从业者的强制报告行为报送。
• Clinical teaching in nursing and allied professions is measured instead of assumed, with studies of nurse-led graded diaphragmatic training for ventilated patients and of educational approaches to clinical competence.护理与相关专业的临床教学以测量呈现而非默认有效，刊出过机械通气患者的护士主导分级膈肌功能训练，以及面向临床能力的教学法比较。
• Prevention products for younger and clinical populations receive formal evaluation, for example a substance use prevention web-app designed for diverse college students and a multidimensional index of vaping dependence.面向青年人群与临床人群的预防产品得到正式评估，例如为多元大学生设计的物质使用预防网页应用，以及多维电子烟依赖指数。
• Health systems and policy questions enter through evaluation studies of infant vaccination coverage, of post-pandemic resilience across OECD countries and of digital health integration inside Brazil's public system.卫生体系与政策议题经由评估研究进入版面，涉及婴幼儿疫苗接种覆盖率，OECD 国家的疫情后韧性，以及巴西公立体系的数字健康整合。
• Evidence synthesis has a place as well, with systematic reviews, a review of a community assessment checklist tool used in India and a methodological commentary on how qualitative research should be combined in programme evaluation.证据综合亦有版面，刊出系统综述，印度社区评估清单工具的综述，以及讨论项目评估应如何合并质性研究的方法学评论。

History

• The journal began in 1978 and the National Library of Medicine record opens its coverage at volume one number one, dated spring of that year, with no missing year since.该刊 1978 年创刊，美国国家医学图书馆记录的收录起点是第 1 卷第 1 期，标注为当年春季，此后没有缺年。
• R. Barker Bausell and Carolyn F. Waltz, both working at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, held the founding editorships and set the journal's measurement-first agenda.创始主编是 R. Barker Bausell 与 Carolyn F. Waltz，二人均任职于巴尔的摩的University of Maryland, Baltimore（马里兰大学），测量先行的办刊取向由二人定下。^[1]
• Empirical Publications of Baltimore appears as the historic imprint in that same record while the current imprint names Sage Publications at Newbury Park, California, so the title moved from a small independent house to the group that still publishes it.同一记录把巴尔的摩的 Empirical Publications 留作历史出版项，现行出版项写明加州 Newbury Park 的 Sage Publications，刊物由小型独立出版社转入如今仍出版它的集团。
• The title has never been rechristened, keeping the same ampersand form in the library catalogue, in Crossref deposits and on the publisher's own pages.题名从未改换，「&」的写法在图书馆目录，Crossref 登记与出版方页面中保持一致。
• One volume covers one calendar year and carries four issues, so 2024 fell in volume 47, 2025 in volume 48 and 2026 in volume 49, matching the quarterly pattern stated in the library record.一卷对应一个自然年并含 4 期，2024 年落在第 47 卷，2025 年是第 48 卷，2026 年是第 49 卷，与书目记录的季刊说明相符。
• Crossref registers the two numbers under one publisher, 0163-2787 for print and 1552-3918 for electronic, and counts 128 current records against 1460 backfile records.Crossref 以同一出版方登记两个刊号，纸质号 0163-2787，电子号 1552-3918，当期记录 128 条，过刊记录 1460 条。
• MEDLINE and PubMed have indexed the journal from that first spring issue with full rather than selective treatment, keeping every article it prints inside public search.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 自 1978 年春的首期起收录该刊并采取全量标引，使每篇刊出的论文都进入公共检索。
• Hospital abstracting arrived with the journal and left before it, the Hospital literature index covering 1978 to 1994 and the Hospital and health administration index only 1995, both recorded as selective.医院类索引与期刊同期开始却提前结束，医院文献索引（Hospital literature index）覆盖 1978 至 1994 年，医院与卫生管理索引（Hospital and health administration index）只到 1995 年，两者均记为选择性收录。
• Clarivate lists the title in two citation editions at once, HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES under the science edition and HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES under the social science edition.Clarivate 同时把该刊列入两个引文版别，科学版归入 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES，社会科学版归入 HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES。
• Reported impact factors moved from 2.329 in 2022 to 2.2 in 2023 and 1.6 in 2024, then returned to 1.9 in 2025, while the five-year figure stood at 2.3.公布的影响因子从 2022 年的 2.329 降到 2023 年的 2.2 与 2024 年的 1.6，2025 年回到 1.9，5 年值停在 2.3。
• Output in the 2025 edition year was small, 32 research articles inside 34 citable items, alongside 1658 cumulative citations, a cited half life of 12.1 years and an immediacy index of 0.2.2025 年版别年度的产出规模很小，34 项可引内容里有 32 篇论文，同期累计被引 1658 次，被引半衰期 12.1 年，即时指数 0.2。
• The journal kept its subscription base rather than converting to full open access, with 26.36 percent of 2025 output appearing as gold open access and no listing in the Directory of Open Access Journals.该刊保持订阅制而未转为完全开放获取，2025 年产出中 26.36% 以金色开放获取形式出现，也未进入开放获取期刊目录。

Editors

• Steve Sussman of the University of Southern California holds the editorship, a prevention researcher who also wrote the journal's own survey of the papers it had published across three decades.现任主编是南加州大学（University of Southern California）的 Steve Sussman，他主攻预防科学，也执笔过该刊三十年发文构成的自我盘点。
• That survey filled pages 7 to 11 of volume 33 number one in 2010 and counted what the title had published across 32 years, an act of institutional self-examination few journals undertake.这篇盘点见于 2010 年第 33 卷第 1 期第 7 至 11 页，清点该刊 32 年间的发文构成，此类自我审视少有期刊去做。^[1]
• Transcriptions of the publisher's editorial roster show board members drawn from health measurement and medical education, including Pallav Pokhrel of the University of Hawaii Cancer Center and W. James Popham of UCLA.出版方编委名录的转录显示，编委来自健康测量与医学教育两个方向，成员含夏威夷大学癌症中心（University of Hawaii Cancer Center）的 Pallav Pokhrel 与加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的 W. James Popham。
• Manuscripts reach the editorial office through the publisher's online submission portal, whose address is carried in several journal directories, rather than by correspondence in paper or email.稿件经出版方的在线投稿系统进入编辑部，该系统地址被多家期刊目录收录，不以纸质或邮件通信方式收稿。
• The aims page states an average of 31 days from submission to first decision, printing the figure immediately after the scope description.宗旨页写明从投稿到首次决定的平均时间为 31 天，这个数字紧跟在收稿范围之后印出。
• The journal declares itself a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics, tying its handling of authorship disputes, image reuse and correction notices to that body's procedures.该刊声明自己是出版伦理委员会（Committee on Publication Ethics）成员，署名争议，图像复用与更正声明均按该组织规程处理。
• An Acknowledgement of Reviewers item opens each new volume without listed authors, crediting the external assessors who read manuscripts in the preceding year.每年新的一卷会刊出不署作者名的审稿人致谢条目，列出上一年审阅稿件的外部评审者。^[2]
• Commentary pieces are solicited and signed, several of them clustered in volume 47 number four of November 2024 around training and technical assistance for evidence-based programmes.评论类文章经约稿刊发并署名，其中数篇集中在 2024 年 11 月的第 47 卷第 4 期，主题围绕循证项目的培训与技术支持。^[3]
• Those November pieces argued that technical assistance needs an explicit theory of change, that research and practice gaps require deliberate bridging, and that system readiness for health interventions needs strengthening before programmes widen.同年 11 月的几篇评论主张技术支持需内置明确的变革理论，研究与实践之间的落差要有意的弥合机制，卫生干预的体系准备度也需在扩大范围之前补强。
• Certification and professional duty questions also enter through commentary, a 2025 piece by Katya Peri and Mark J. Eisenberg reviewing mandatory maintenance of certification in the United States.认证与职业责任议题同样经评论进入版面，2025 年 Katya Peri 与 Mark J. Eisenberg 合写的一篇检视了美国的强制再认证制度。
• Authors come from health systems at different income levels, the 2024 to 2026 issues carrying work set in Brazil, Bangladesh, Australia, Japan, the Netherlands, Türkiye and the United States alongside instrument adaptations reported in Italian, Malay and Bangla versions.作者来自不同收入水平的卫生体系，2024 至 2026 年各期载有巴西，孟加拉国，澳大利亚，日本，荷兰，土耳其与美国的研究，量表改编则覆盖意大利语，马来语与孟加拉语版本。