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Clinical Simulation in Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 1876-1399Verify ISSN ↗1876-1402Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$3,210 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 8 / 55 | 85th | Q1 |
| Education | 469 / 1698 | 72nd | Q2 |
| Modeling and Simulation | 133 / 397 | 66th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2006–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.9.
Clinical Simulation in Nursing is Q1 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 8 of 55), Q2 in Education (rank 469 of 1698) and Q2 in Modeling and Simulation (rank 133 of 397), by CiteScore 2025.
Clinical Simulation in 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 3.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.765, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 72.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,210 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.
Clinical Simulation in Nursing is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 1876-1399 and its online ISSN is 1876-1402.
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 Simulation in Nursing has an h-index of 89 and a 2-year mean of 2.87 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 53 Scopus journals in Nursing (miscellaneous).
Clinical Simulation in Nursing published 201 papers in 2025. 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 90 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (37%), Australia (11.1%) and Türkiye (10.9%).
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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