The journal welcomes a wide range of research including:

• development and testing of strategies to advance the implementation, sustainment, and scale-out of effective prevention and treatment approaches; and, to decrease the use of approaches that are untested and ineffective;
• evaluation of the impact of innovative design, content, or delivery methods intended to optimize effective prevention and treatment approaches;
• evaluation of the effectiveness of novel assessment, preventive or treatment approaches that includes a robust evaluation of their implementation;
• development and evaluation of research methods to advance the science, such as innovative research design, measurement, analytic, and data and knowledge synthesis methods;
• research on the dissemination of information about effective approaches to the detection, prevention, and treatment of mental health, substance use, and other addictive behaviors; and, of information regarding effective methods to promote their adoption and implementation; and
• systematic reviews in the field of implementation synthesizing the evidence for frameworks, measures, strategies, and outcomes, for instance.

Outside the journal scope is:

• research exclusively focused on health promotion or health behaviors in the general population without consideration of impact on mental health, substance use, or addiction; and
• research exclusively focused on the intervention (its development, efficacy, effectiveness) with no evaluation of implementation processes or outcomes.