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Issues in Mental Health Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3.3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Informa Healthcare.
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ISSN 0161-2840Verify ISSN ↗1096-4673Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 17 / 47 | 64th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1988–present (also 1978–1986), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.3.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing is Q2 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 17 of 47), by CiteScore 2025.
Issues in Mental Health 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 3.3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 64th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.555, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 78.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing is published by Informa Healthcare. Its print ISSN is 0161-2840 and its online ISSN is 1096-4673.
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.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing has an h-index of 101 and a 2-year mean of 1.98 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 46 Scopus journals in Psychiatric Mental Health.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing published 166 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 213. 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 91 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (32.1%), Türkiye (12.8%) and Australia (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (1.2 per 1,000 papers). 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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