Here is a policy commentary manuscript that delineates the key elements or alternate program quality paradigms and their subsequent implications for regulatory compliance measurement and program quality that has been submitted to the Journal of Regulatory Science. This manuscript is intended for other licensing researchers and regulatory scientists as they deal with licensing measurement issues in regulatory science. Hopefully it provides some key parameters to consider as the regulatory science field matures into a full-blown science.

A brief comment about the Journal of Regulatory Science. This relatively new journal, started publishing in 2013, is an excellent forum for those researchers and scientists who are doing regulatory science related research. It is open sourced and encourages scientists from all content disciplines who have an interest in regulatory science to submit their research to the journal. I have been involved in research and publishing for 50 years and this journal and its approach is a breath of fresh air in their openness, attention to detail, and creating a peer review process that makes sense and is timely. I encourage any regulatory science researcher or scientist to check this journal out for sharing their research (https://journals.tdl.org/regsci/index.php/regsci/about).