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Clinical Nurse Specialist is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 0887-6274Verify ISSN ↗1538-9782Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 45 / 73 | 39th | Q3 |
| Assessment and Diagnosis | 8 / 11 | 31st | Q3 |
| LPN and LVN | 11 / 15 | 30th | Q3 |
| Leadership and Management | 37 / 41 | 10th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1987–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Clinical Nurse Specialist is Q3 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 45 of 73), Q3 in Assessment and Diagnosis (rank 8 of 11) and Q3 in LPN and LVN (rank 11 of 15), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Clinical Nurse Specialist 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 39th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.261, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
Clinical Nurse Specialist is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0887-6274 and its online ISSN is 1538-9782.
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.
Clinical Nurse Specialist has an h-index of 60 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Clinical Nurse Specialist published 63 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 81. 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 78 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (85.9%), Türkiye (2.6%) and Taiwan (2.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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