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Clinical Nurse Specialist

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · United States

ISSN0887-6274eISSN1538-9782

SJR Q3✓ WOS SCIE✓ WOS SSCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE · SSCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q3. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 75% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.261

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.4

Total Worksi

3,921

Total Citationsi

24,456

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.53

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nursing; Advanced and Specialized Nursing; Assessment and Diagnosis; LPN and LVN; Leadership and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published—

Annual Volume~ 70 articles / year

StatusActive

Total Publications3,921

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

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Submission Info

Publishing ModelSubscription

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

0887-6274 / 1538-9782

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

829

2019

454

2020

316

2021

149

2022

138

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

Advanced and Specialized NursingQ3

Assessment and DiagnosisQ3

LPN and LVNQ3

Leadership and ManagementQ4

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nursing

Scopus Categories

Leadership and ManagementAdvanced and Specialized NursingAssessment and DiagnosisLPN and LVN

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nursing Roles and PracticesNursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipHealth Sciences Research and EducationInterprofessional Education and CollaborationNursing Diagnosis and Documentation

Frequently asked questions about Clinical Nurse Specialist

Is Clinical Nurse Specialist a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Clinical Nurse Specialist: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Clinical Nurse Specialist?

Clinical Nurse Specialist is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.53.

Is Clinical Nurse Specialist indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Clinical Nurse Specialist is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Clinical Nurse Specialist?