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Chinese Journal of Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4). Published by Chinese Nursing Journals Publishing House Co.,Ltd.
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ISSN 0254-1769Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Chinese Nursing Journals Publishing House Co.,Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 20 / 73 | 73rd | Q2 |
| Critical Care Nursing | 11 / 28 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Leadership and Management | 22 / 41 | 47th | Q3 |
| Research and Theory | 13 / 22 | 43rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2022–present (also 1982–1997), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Chinese Journal of Nursing is Q2 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 20 of 73), Q2 in Critical Care Nursing (rank 11 of 28) and Q3 in Leadership and Management (rank 22 of 41), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Chinese Journal of Nursing is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2, 73rd percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.439, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 15.
Chinese Journal of Nursing is published by Chinese Nursing Journals Publishing House Co.,Ltd. Its ISSN is 0254-1769.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Journal of Nursing has an h-index of 10 and a 2-year mean of 0 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #65 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Chinese Journal of Nursing published 6 papers in 2021; its busiest recent year was 2012 with 274. 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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