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Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 4), 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 0889-4655Verify ISSN ↗1550-5049Verify 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 | 7 / 73 | 91st | Q1 |
| Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine | 158 / 409 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1986–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 4.
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is Q1 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 7 of 73) and Q2 in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine (rank 158 of 409), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Cardiovascular 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 4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 91st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.639, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 76.
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0889-4655 and its online ISSN is 1550-5049.
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.
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing has an h-index of 93 and a 2-year mean of 1.32 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #16 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing published 103 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 151. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (35.8%), China (17.9%) and South Korea (8.9%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 4 retracted papers are recorded (1.3 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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