Journal profile · Nursing
Japan Journal of Nursing Science
ISSN 1742-7932 · eISSN 1742-7924 · Blackwell Publishing Asia · JAPAN · Semiannual · Founded 2004
Japan Journal of Nursing Science: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.74; hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,890; median 140 days to acceptance (85 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 59 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Japan Journal of Nursing Science is published by Blackwell Publishing Asia and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies and Military Technology and Strategies, together about 51.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Japan Journal of Nursing Science is the official English language journal of the Japan Academy of Nursing Science. The purpose of the Journal is to provide a mechanism to share knowledge related to improving health care and promoting the development of nursing. The Journal seeks original manuscripts reporting scholarly work on the art and science of nursing. Original articles may be empirical and qualitative studies, review articles, methodological articles, brief reports, case studies and letters to the Editor. Please see Instructions for Authors for detailed authorship qualification requirement.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Nursing
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 3, Taiwan, China 1, United Kingdom 1, Japan 1, South Korea 1 (13 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Legal and Regulatory AnalysisSocial Sciences17.1%
- Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary StudiesSocial Sciences17.1%
- Military Technology and StrategiesEngineering17.1%
- Nursing education and managementNursing6.8%
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnoutHealth Professions3.3%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine3.1%
- Health and Wellbeing ResearchHealth Professions2.6%
- Infant Development and Preterm CareMedicine2.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Nursing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Nursing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Nursing | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEPubMedPsycINFOCINAHLPublisher website
Other: EBSCO
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
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
- Impact factor
- 1.74LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.8LetPub ·
- h-index
- 13LetPub ·
- h-index
- 47OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 389OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.55OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.6%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 34.23%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 42LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 51Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 212,187Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,353 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 45 | 30 | 3 |
| 2025 | 59 | 36 | 95 |
| 2024 | 64 | 41 | 163 |
| 2023 | 63 | 45 | 356 |
| 2022 | 57 | 17 | 569 |
| 2021 | 75 | 18 | 686 |
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
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
140 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 100 days – 195 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 24 days (85 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 167 days
- Sample
- 85 articles with submission and acceptance dates (111 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- over 12 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 6%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 8 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 122 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 26 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,890 / EUR 2,420 / GBP 1,940 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | JPY 10,000 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Page charges
- JPY 10,000
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 prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Optional
Article types accepted5
- editorialThe acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to the Journal’s readership. Except where otherwise …Length not stated
- methodological article3. Methodological Article Definition: New methodological approaches, modifications of existing methods, and discussions of quantitative and data analytic approa…Length not stated
- original article1. Original Article Definition: Original research, consisting of Introduction, Methods, Results and Discussion. Original work must provide at least 10 reference…Length not stated
- others4. Others Definition: Brief Reports, Case Studies, Viewpoints, Letters to the Editor and Replies on previously published articles will be considered. Length: Sh…Length not stated
- review article2. Review Article Definition: Critical evaluations of material about current research that has already been published by organizing, integrating and evaluating …Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS (CREDIT)
CRediT author contributions required Model summary
This journal requires details of all authors’ contributions to the work by providing CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy) information during submission.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT
Authors should declare any financial support or relationship that may pose conflict of interest as a Conflict of Interest Statement in the Disclosure section of your manuscript. These might include relevant financial interests (for example, patent ownership, stock ownership, consultancies, or speaker’s fees), or personal, political, or religious interests. The absence of any interest to disclose m…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability DATA SHARING
EQUATOR reporting checklist adherence expected; systematic reviews require preregistration (e.g., PROSPERO) Model summary
This journal expects data sharing and peer reviews shared data.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Declaration of Helsinki compliance required Model summary
Authors must follow the ethical standards for human experimentation established in the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in Fortaleza, Brazil, October 2013).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright COPYRIGHT, LICENSING and OPEN ACCESS
Accepted papers will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to complete an electronic license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access COPYRIGHT, LICENSING and OPEN ACCESS
Accepted papers will be passed to Wiley’s production team for publication. The author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Wiley’s Author Services, where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be asked to complete an electronic license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
Double-anonymized peer review; identifying material in separate title page file Model summary
Note: Manuscript should be double spaced. Material that might identify authorship of the paper should not be included in the manuscript file. The title page, Acknowledgement, Disclosure, Authors' contributions have to be in a separate ‘title page’ file, which will not be for review.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Structured abstract ≤250 words with headings Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions Model summary
All articles (except Comments, Replies and Letters to the Editor) must have a structured abstract that states in 250 words or fewer. Divide the abstract with the headings: Aim, Methods, Results, Conclusions. The abstract should not contain abbreviations or references.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines
Clinical trial registration required Model summary
JJNS requires that all clinical trials submitted for its consideration are registered in a publicly accessible database such as http://clinicaltrials.gov/. Authors should include the name of the trial register and their clinical trial registration number in the title page as per the title page template. If the trial is not registered, the reasons for this should be explained in the title page.
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
- Blackwell Publishing Asia
- Country or region
- JAPAN
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Semiannual
- Founded
- 2004
- ISSN
- 1742-7932
- Electronic ISSN
- 1742-7924
- Society / sponsor
- Japan Academy of Nursing Science
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 23, Issue 4 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Japan Journal of Nursing Science
What CAS zone is Japan Journal of Nursing Science in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Japan Journal of Nursing Science is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Nursing. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Japan Journal of Nursing Science?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.74; CiteScore 3.6, h-index 47.
How long does peer review take at Japan Journal of Nursing Science?
Based on the dates recorded on 85 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 140 days (interquartile range 100–195 days); authors report an average review time of over 12 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 6% (2025). 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 Japan Journal of Nursing Science?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Cover letter: Optional. 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 Japan Journal of Nursing Science based?
Of the 13 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (3), Taiwan, China (1) and United Kingdom (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Japan Journal of Nursing Science?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Japan Journal of Nursing Science is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO and CINAHL; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Japan Journal of Nursing Science open access, and what is the APC?
Japan Journal of Nursing Science is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,890.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .