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Nurse Educator is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 3), WoS SCIE/SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd..
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ISSN 0363-3624Verify ISSN ↗1538-9855Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals and Skills | 5 / 15 | 70th | Q2 |
| LPN and LVN | 5 / 15 | 70th | Q2 |
| Nursing (all) | 46 / 144 | 68th | Q2 |
| Education | 645 / 1698 | 62nd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1976–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 3.
Nurse Educator is Q2 in Fundamentals and Skills (rank 5 of 15), Q2 in LPN and LVN (rank 5 of 15) and Q2 in Nursing (all) (rank 46 of 144), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nurse Educator 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 3, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 70th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.660, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 53.
Nurse Educator is published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0363-3624 and its online ISSN is 1538-9855.
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.
Nurse Educator has an h-index of 72 and a 2-year mean of 1.28 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #60 of 141 Scopus journals in Nursing (all).
Nurse Educator published 295 papers in 2025. 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 93 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (80.1%), China (5.9%) and Israel (2.2%). 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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