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Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is Scopus-indexed (Q4, CiteScore 0.7), WoS ESCI. Published by Unisa Press.
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ISSN 1682-5055Verify ISSN ↗2520-5293Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Unisa Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 56 / 73 | 23rd | Q4 |
| Maternity and Midwifery | 35 / 45 | 23rd | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q4, CiteScore 0.7.
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is Q4 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 56 of 73) and Q4 in Maternity and Midwifery (rank 35 of 45), by CiteScore 2025.
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 0.7, which places it in quartile Q4 at the 23rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.203, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 14.
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is published by Unisa Press. Its print ISSN is 1682-5055 and its online ISSN is 2520-5293.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery has an h-index of 17 and a 2-year mean of 0.26 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.7, quartile Q4. On 2-year citations it ranks #54 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Africa Journal of Nursing and Midwifery published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 60. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 94 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from South Africa (34.4%), Indonesia (15.4%) and Türkiye (9.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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