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Nurse Education Today

Churchill Livingstone · United Kingdom · Est. 1968

ISSN1532-2793

SJR Q1✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q1. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

1.428

H-Indexi

162

SNIPi

2.026

Total Worksi

8,655

Total Citationsi

260,036

2yr Mean Citednessi

4.14

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Education, Scientific Disciplines; Nursing; Education; Nursing (miscellaneous).

General Information

Country / RegionUnited Kingdom

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1968

FrequencyTwelve No. A Year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications8,655

Publisher OrgElsevier BV

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Submission Info

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?

Churchill Livingstone

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1532-2793

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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

274

10k

2019

341

12k

2020

427

13k

2021

362

8.2k

2022

300

5.5k

2023

371

3.6k

2024

316

1.4k

2025

350

147

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.

EducationQ1

Nursing (miscellaneous)Q1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Education, Scientific DisciplinesNursing

Scopus Categories

Nursing (miscellaneous)Education

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nursing education and managementSimulation-Based Education in HealthcareInnovations in Medical EducationInterprofessional Education and CollaborationCultural Competency in Health CareNursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipHealth Sciences Research and EducationNursing Roles and PracticesReflective Practices in EducationHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnout

Frequently asked questions about Nurse Education Today

Is Nurse Education Today a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Nurse Education Today: 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 Nurse Education Today?

Nurse Education Today 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 4.14.

Is Nurse Education Today indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Nurse Education Today is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Nurse Education Today?