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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1.8), 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 1522-2179Verify ISSN ↗1539-0705Verify 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 | 29 / 73 | 60th | Q2 |
| Community and Home Care | 20 / 40 | 51st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1999–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.8.
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing is Q2 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 29 of 73) and Q2 in Community and Home Care (rank 20 of 40), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Hospice and Palliative 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 1.8, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 60th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.394, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 36.
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 1522-2179 and its online ISSN is 1539-0705.
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 Hospice and Palliative Nursing has an h-index of 44 and a 2-year mean of 0.81 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.8, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #33 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing published 103 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2019 with 120. 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 74 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (70.9%), Türkiye (9.9%) and Spain (2.7%). 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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