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Journal of Nursing Education is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. Published by Slack Incorporated.
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ISSN 0148-4834Verify ISSN ↗1938-2421Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Slack Incorporated
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (all) | 50 / 144 | 65th | Q2 |
| Education | 658 / 1698 | 61st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1965–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.9.
Journal of Nursing Education is Q2 in Nursing (all) (rank 50 of 144) and Q2 in Education (rank 658 of 1698), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Nursing Education 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 2.9, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 65th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.607, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 83.
Journal of Nursing Education is published by Slack Incorporated. Its print ISSN is 0148-4834 and its online ISSN is 1938-2421.
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 Nursing Education has an h-index of 114 and a 2-year mean of 2.01 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.9, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #40 of 141 Scopus journals in Nursing (all).
Journal of Nursing Education published 165 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 233. 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 (81.1%), Türkiye (4.2%) and Canada (3.7%). 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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