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Journal for Nurses in Professional Development

Lippincott Williams and Wilkins · United States · Est. 1970

ISSN2169-9798eISSN2169-981X

SJR Q3✓ 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JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date.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 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

0.372

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.674

Total Worksi

1,305

Total Citationsi

6,726

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.41

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Nursing; Education; Fundamentals and Skills; Leadership and Management; Medicine (miscellaneous); Review and Exam Preparation.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1970

Annual Volume~ 83 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,305

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

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

2169-9798 / 2169-981X

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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

106

678

2019

513

2020

114

467

2021

145

435

2022

100

2023

106

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.

EducationQ3

Fundamentals and SkillsQ3

Leadership and ManagementQ3

Medicine (miscellaneous)Q3

Review and Exam PreparationQ3

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Nursing

Scopus Categories

Leadership and ManagementReview and Exam PreparationMedicine (miscellaneous)Fundamentals and SkillsEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nursing education and managementNursing Roles and PracticesNursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipSimulation-Based Education in HealthcareHealth Sciences Research and EducationInterprofessional Education and CollaborationInnovations in Medical EducationNursing Diagnosis and DocumentationDisaster Response and ManagementPatient Safety and Medication Errors

Frequently asked questions about Journal for Nurses in Professional Development

Is Journal for Nurses in Professional Development a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Journal for Nurses in Professional Development: 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 Journal for Nurses in Professional Development?

Journal for Nurses in Professional Development 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 0.41.

Is Journal for Nurses in Professional Development indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Journal for Nurses in Professional Development?