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Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1.5), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 2169-9798Verify ISSN ↗2169-981XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 1040 / 1698 | 38th | Q3 |
| Review and Exam Preparation | 3 / 4 | 37th | Q3 |
| Fundamentals and Skills | 10 / 15 | 36th | Q3 |
| Leadership and Management | 31 / 41 | 25th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2013–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.5.
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is Q3 in Education (rank 1040 of 1698), Q3 in Review and Exam Preparation (rank 3 of 4) and Q3 in Fundamentals and Skills (rank 10 of 15), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development 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 1.5, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 38th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.372, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 27.
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 2169-9798 and its online ISSN is 2169-981X.
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 Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 0.59 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.5, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #1,131 of 1,610 Scopus journals in Education.
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development published 96 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 145. 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 62 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (98.4%) and Canada (1.6%). 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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