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MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2), 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 0361-929XVerify ISSN ↗1539-0683Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pharmacology (nursing) | 2 / 10 | 85th | Q1 |
| Maternity and Midwifery | 15 / 45 | 67th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.
MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing is Q1 in Pharmacology (nursing) (rank 2 of 10) and Q2 in Maternity and Midwifery (rank 15 of 45), by CiteScore 2025.
MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child 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, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.349, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 53.
MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Its print ISSN is 0361-929X and its online ISSN is 1539-0683.
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.
MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 0.82 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #18 of 44 Scopus journals in Maternity and Midwifery.
MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 96. 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 64 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from United States (96.1%), Canada (1.6%) and Saudi Arabia (1.6%). 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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