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Nursing Forum is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.5), WoS ESCI. Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc.
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ISSN 0029-6473Verify ISSN ↗1744-6198Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Cost to publish: About US$840 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing (all) | 16 / 144 | 89th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2002–present (also 1987–2000, 1984–1985, 1961–1981), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.5.
Nursing Forum is Q1 in Nursing (all) (rank 16 of 144), by CiteScore 2025.
Nursing Forum 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 5.5, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 89th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.849, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 59.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$840 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.
Nursing Forum is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. Its print ISSN is 0029-6473 and its online ISSN is 1744-6198.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nursing Forum has an h-index of 80 and a 2-year mean of 1.19 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.5, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 141 Scopus journals in Nursing (all).
Nursing Forum published 97 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 161. 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 95 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Saudi Arabia (9.6%), Egypt (7.1%) and Brazil (6.1%).
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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