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Nurse Leader

Academic Press Inc. · United States · Est. 1987

ISSN1541-4612eISSN1541-4620

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.485

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.629

Total Worksi

2,865

Total Citationsi

8,830

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.74

Open Impact Factor alternative

Retractions

Source: Retraction Watch

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nursing; Leadership and Management.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1987

FrequencyBimonthly

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications2,865

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?

Academic Press Inc.

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1541-4612 / 1541-4620

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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

168

815

2019

155

1.4k

2020

125

828

2021

146

926

2022

164

494

2023

160

312

2024

186

157

2025

160

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.

Leadership and ManagementQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nursing

Scopus Categories

Leadership and Management

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipNursing education and managementNursing Roles and PracticesHealthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutGlobal Health Workforce IssuesHealthcare Policy and ManagementInterprofessional Education and CollaborationNursing Diagnosis and DocumentationPrimary Care and Health OutcomesLeadership and Management in Organizations

Frequently asked questions about Nurse Leader

Is Nurse Leader a predatory journal?

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

Nurse Leader 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 0.74.

Is Nurse Leader indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Nurse Leader is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Nurse Leader?