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Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.5), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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ISSN 1071-5754Verify ISSN ↗1528-3976Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medical and Surgical Nursing | 5 / 28 | 83rd | Q1 |
| Advanced and Specialized Nursing | 18 / 73 | 76th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1982–present (also 1977–1979), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.5.
Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing is Q1 in Medical and Surgical Nursing (rank 5 of 28) and Q1 in Advanced and Specialized Nursing (rank 18 of 73), by CiteScore 2025.
Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence 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 2.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 83rd percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.445, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 67.
Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 1071-5754 and its online ISSN is 1528-3976.
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 Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing has an h-index of 81 and a 2-year mean of 1.22 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #8 of 28 Scopus journals in Medical and Surgical Nursing.
Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing published 100 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2020 with 118. 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 72 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (50%), Türkiye (10.4%) and Canada (6.9%). 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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