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Journal of Psychiatric Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by Kare Publishing.
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ISSN 1309-3568Verify ISSN ↗2149-374XVerify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Kare Publishing
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 46 / 73 | 36th | Q3 |
| Psychiatric Mental Health | 36 / 47 | 24th | Q4 |
| Psychiatry and Mental Health | 473 / 580 | 18th | Q4 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–present, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 1.
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing is Q3 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 46 of 73), Q4 in Psychiatric Mental Health (rank 36 of 47) and Q4 in Psychiatry and Mental Health (rank 473 of 580), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing is indexed in the Emerging Sources 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, which places it in quartile Q3 at the 36th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.283, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 12.
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing is published by Kare Publishing. Its print ISSN is 1309-3568 and its online ISSN is 2149-374X.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal per Scopus.
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing has an h-index of 25 and a 2-year mean of 0.69 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #35 of 71 Scopus journals in Advanced and Specialized Nursing.
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing published 38 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 54. 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 70 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Türkiye (71.4%), Indonesia (11.4%) and Iran (4.3%). 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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