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Archives of Psychiatric Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4.2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by W.B. Saunders.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0883-9417Verify ISSN ↗1532-8228Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Cost to publish: About US$3,600 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 12 / 47 | 75th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.2.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing is Q1 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 12 of 47), by CiteScore 2025.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 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 4.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 75th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.803, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 71.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,600 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.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing is published by W.B. Saunders. Its print ISSN is 0883-9417 and its online ISSN is 1532-8228.
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.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing has an h-index of 88 and a 2-year mean of 2.06 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 46 Scopus journals in Psychiatric Mental Health.
Archives of Psychiatric Nursing published 170 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 190. 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 86 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (23.5%), United States (16.5%) and China (11.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 3 retracted papers are recorded (0.9 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 1 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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