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International Journal of Palliative Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.4), WoS ESCI. Published by MA Healthcare Ltd.
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ISSN 1357-6321Verify ISSN ↗2052-286XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: MA Healthcare Ltd
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 36 / 73 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2000–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.4.
International Journal of Palliative Nursing is Q2 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 36 of 73), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal of Palliative Nursing is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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 1.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 51st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.344, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 50.
International Journal of Palliative Nursing is published by MA Healthcare Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1357-6321 and its online ISSN is 2052-286X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal of Palliative Nursing has an h-index of 65 and a 2-year mean of 0.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #32 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
International Journal of Palliative Nursing published 72 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 108. 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 97 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United Kingdom (19.9%), United States (9.8%) and Philippines (7.6%).
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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