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AORN Journal is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc..
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ISSN 0001-2092Verify ISSN ↗1878-0369Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical and Surgical Nursing | 15 / 28 | 48th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1963–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.2.
AORN Journal is Q3 in Medical and Surgical Nursing (rank 15 of 28), by CiteScore 2025.
AORN Journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences 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 1.2, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 48th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.258, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,360 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
AORN Journal is published by John Wiley & Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0001-2092 and its online ISSN is 1878-0369.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
AORN Journal has an h-index of 100 and a 2-year mean of 0.51 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.2, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #19 of 28 Scopus journals in Medical and Surgical Nursing.
AORN Journal published 219 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 353. 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.
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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