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Journal of Community Health Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0737-0016Verify ISSN ↗1532-7655Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community and Home Care | 18 / 40 | 56th | Q2 |
| Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health | 439 / 725 | 39th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1984–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.
Journal of Community Health Nursing is Q2 in Community and Home Care (rank 18 of 40) and Q3 in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (rank 439 of 725), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Community 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 2, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 56th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.371, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 40.
Journal of Community Health Nursing is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0737-0016 and its online ISSN is 1532-7655.
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 Community Health Nursing has an h-index of 52 and a 2-year mean of 1.58 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #12 of 39 Scopus journals in Community and Home Care.
Journal of Community Health Nursing published 26 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 35. 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 96 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from United States (30.8%), Türkiye (18.8%) and China (11.7%).
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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