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Cancer Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 6), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 0162-220XVerify ISSN ↗1538-9804Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oncology (nursing) | 3 / 24 | 89th | Q1 |
| Oncology | 110 / 428 | 74th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1978–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 6.
Cancer Nursing is Q1 in Oncology (nursing) (rank 3 of 24) and Q2 in Oncology (rank 110 of 428), by CiteScore 2025.
Cancer 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 6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.771, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 93.
Cancer Nursing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0162-220X and its online ISSN is 1538-9804.
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.
Cancer Nursing has an h-index of 123 and a 2-year mean of 1.75 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #11 of 24 Scopus journals in Oncology (nursing).
Cancer Nursing published 102 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 143. 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 95 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (27.4%), China (24.7%) and Türkiye (8.9%).
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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