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Journal of Nursing Regulation is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.9), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Inc..
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ISSN 2155-8256Verify ISSN ↗2155-8264Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Cost to publish: About US$2,850 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (miscellaneous) | 2 / 55 | 97th | Q1 |
| Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects | 2 / 53 | 97th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.9.
Journal of Nursing Regulation is Q1 in Nursing (miscellaneous) (rank 2 of 55) and Q1 in Issues, Ethics and Legal Aspects (rank 2 of 53), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Nursing Regulation 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 7.9, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 97th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.691, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 31.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$2,850 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Nursing Regulation is published by Elsevier Inc. Its print ISSN is 2155-8256 and its online ISSN is 2155-8264.
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 Nursing Regulation has an h-index of 41 and a 2-year mean of 2.68 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #4 of 53 Scopus journals in Nursing (miscellaneous).
Journal of Nursing Regulation published 66 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 86. 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 87 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (67.2%), Canada (7.1%) and Australia (5.7%). 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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