Journal profile
Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
ISSN 2523-0271 · eISSN 2617-183X · Hawler Medical University · Iraq
Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery: fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; review about 30 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 89% (journal website); 21 articles in 2025.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is published by Hawler Medical University. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions, Nursing education and management and Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare, together about 31.9% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
About Scope and Focus Copyright and Licensing Open Access Policy Peer Review Process Ethical Considerations Plagiarism and AI Policy Authorship Editing Article Processing Charge (APC) Scope and Focus Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is the official journal of the College of Nursing, Hawler Medical University, in Erbil city. EJNM is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online and print system journal, which is published biannually. The journal welcomes submissions of original and significant contributions. EJNM aims to publish peer-reviewed manuscripts of regional and international interest. The editors welcome papers that develop and promote knowledge and practice that is directly relevant to all spheres of health care especially nursing and midwifery globally. EJNM mission is to promote excellence in nursing, midwifery and health care through the dissemination of evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical information and original research, discussion of relevant and controversial professional issues, and promotion of nursing and midwifery perspectives to the health care community and the public. Original articles, review articles, case reports, brief communications, insights and letters to the editor are all considered. Copyright and Licensing The copyright on any article published in Erbil j. nurs. midwifery, is retained by the author(s) in agreement with the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Author(s) need to grant EJNM a license to publish the article and identify the journal as the original publisher. Author(s) can grant any third party the right to use the article freely subjected to the maintenance of its integrity and the identification of its original authors, citation details, and the journal. The Copyright © Police is a Copyright © year of publication The Author(s). This is an Open Access for all articles which licensed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It permits no additional restrictions on use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Policy EJNM provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. EJNM is an Open Access Journal. This means that all content freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution following the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BO
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Editor-in-chief Dara Abdulla Al-BannaPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Iraq 9, United States 4, Jordan 2, United Kingdom 1, Iran 1 (17 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Maternal and Perinatal Health InterventionsMedicine12.3%
- Nursing education and managementNursing10.1%
- Maternal and Neonatal HealthcareHealth Professions9.5%
- Nursing care and researchHealth Professions5%
- Healthcare Education and Workforce IssuesNursing4.5%
- Healthcare Quality and SatisfactionHealth Professions4.5%
- Global Maternal and Child HealthMedicine3.9%
- Infant Development and Preterm CareMedicine3.9%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
DOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- h-index
- 7OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.13OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 157 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 11 | 11 | 23 |
| 2025 | 21 | 21 | 31 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 | 37 |
| 2023 | 21 | 21 | 29 |
| 2022 | 13 | 13 | 41 |
| 2021 | 13 | 13 | 18 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
30 dayssubmission to acceptance · community reports about 30 weeks
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 30 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 89%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 21 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 30 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 30 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | IQD 150,000 | No | CC BY-NC-SA | |
| LetPub | IQD 150,000 | No | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- 200–300 words
- Keywords
- ≤ 6
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 4,000 words
- Reference style
- Vancouver
Article types accepted4, with length limits
- case studyTitle page followed by Abstract (a summary of not more than 300 words), Keywords, Introduction, Case history/report, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgement/s (…main text ≤ 300 words · abstract ≤ 300 words
- literature reviewction, Methods/History (if applicable), Literature Review/Results, Discussion, Conclusion, up to 7000 words (except abstract and references), Acknowledgement/s …main text ≤ 7,000 words
- original articleTitle page, Abstract (in a structured format for original articles) between 200 -300 words, Keywords (maximum six), followed by Introduction, Methods, Results, …main text ≤ 300 words
- review articleTitle, Abstract of no more than 300 words, Keywords (maximum six), followed by Introduction, Methods/History (if applicable), Literature Review/Results, Discuss…main text ≤ 300 words · abstract ≤ 300 words
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism
- AI use Plagiarism and AI Policy
Submitted manuscripts must be original works, unpublished papers, and not pending publication elsewhere. Based on the definition of plagiarism by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), “when somebody presents the work of others (data, words, or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgement," the editorial team of the journal is strictly against any unethical act of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
Authorship must be based on having substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article or revising it critically, and final approval of the version to be published. All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an acknowledgments section at the end of the article.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest CONFLICT OF INTEREST
Vancouver reference style Model summary
Transparency of real and potential conflicts of interests that authors may have should be mentioned, if authors have no conflict of interest to report, the following statement should be written:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Ethics committee approval required Model summary
Author(s) are expected to mention about the approval of regional, national, institutional or independent Ethics Committee or Scientific Committee, obtaining assent for children aged over seven years participating in the trial. The journal will not consider any paper which is ethically unacceptable. A relevant statement on ethics committee permission and ethical practices must be included in all re…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Copyright
The Copyright © Police is a Copyright © year of publication The Author(s). This is an Open Access for all articles which licensed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It permits no additional restrictions on use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Open Access Policy
Open access under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Model summary
EJNM provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review Process
The editorial office of EJNM and the subject editors check each submitted manuscript for general quality, suitability, and whether it conforms to the journal guidelines. Submissions that do not comply with the journal guidelines will be returned to the author (corresponding author) for correction before being considered for publication. All manuscripts are checked by the editorial office for plagi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism and AI Policy
Submitted manuscripts must be original works, unpublished papers, and not pending publication elsewhere. Based on the definition of plagiarism by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), “when somebody presents the work of others (data, words, or theories) as if they were his/her own and without proper acknowledgement," the editorial team of the journal is strictly against any unethical act of …
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Hawler Medical University
- Country or region
- Iraq
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2523-0271
- Electronic ISSN
- 2617-183X
- Society / sponsor
- College of Nursing/Hawler Medical University in Erbil City
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 1 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery
How long does peer review take at Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery?
The publisher reports about 30 days (submission to acceptance); authors report an average review time of about 30 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 89%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: 200–300 words; Keywords: ≤ 6; Manuscript length: ≤ 4,000 words; Reference style: Vancouver. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery based?
Of the 17 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Iraq (9), United States (4) and Jordan (2). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is indexed in DOAJ.
Is Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery open access, and what is the APC?
Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .