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Nurse Educator

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. · United States · Est. 1890

ISSN1538-9855

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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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

0.66

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.133

Total Worksi

5,580

Total Citationsi

44,876

2yr Mean Citednessi

1.01

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nursing; Fundamentals and Skills; LPN and LVN; Nursing (miscellaneous); Review and Exam Preparation; Education.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1890

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications5,580

Publisher OrgLippincott Williams & Wilkins

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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?

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1538-9855

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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

150

1.3k

2019

192

1.8k

2020

178

1.6k

2021

209

2022

240

1.5k

2023

206

579

2024

295

280

2025

205

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.

Fundamentals and SkillsQ1

LPN and LVNQ1

Nursing (miscellaneous)Q1

Review and Exam PreparationQ1

EducationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nursing

Scopus Categories

Nursing (miscellaneous)Review and Exam PreparationLPN and LVNFundamentals and SkillsEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nursing education and managementNursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipSimulation-Based Education in HealthcareInnovations in Medical EducationHealth Sciences Research and EducationEducation and Critical Thinking DevelopmentNursing Roles and PracticesNursing Diagnosis and DocumentationInterprofessional Education and CollaborationCultural Competency in Health Care

Frequently asked questions about Nurse Educator

Is Nurse Educator a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Nurse Educator: 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 Educator?

Nurse Educator 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 1.01.

Is Nurse Educator indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Nurse Educator is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Nurse Educator?