Journal profile · NURSING
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
ISSN 2169-9798 · eISSN 2169-981X · Wolters Kluwer Health
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1 (journal website); JCR Q4 (journal website); subscription journal; 96 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is published by Wolters Kluwer Health 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 Nursing education and management, Nursing Roles and Practices and Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership, together about 40.4% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Research area (LetPub): NURSING
Editor-in-chief Kathleen G. BurkePublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Nursing education and managementNursing16.9%
- Nursing Roles and PracticesHealth Professions12.4%
- Nursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipNursing11.2%
- Simulation-Based Education in HealthcareMedicine9.3%
- Health Sciences Research and EducationHealth Professions6.7%
- Interprofessional Education and CollaborationHealth Professions5.5%
- Innovations in Medical EducationMedicine5.1%
- Nursing Diagnosis and DocumentationNursing5.1%
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)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q4 · NURSING · rank 150/194
Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
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
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 1.5LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- h-index
- 35OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 203OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.6OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 10%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 1.79%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 31LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,342 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 78 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 96 | 0 | 40 |
| 2024 | 83 | 1 | 109 |
| 2023 | 71 | 1 | 104 |
| 2022 | 145 | 6 | 439 |
| 2021 | 114 | 11 | 473 |
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
Not usableThis publisher's "received" date is mostly when the revised manuscript arrived (25% of articles were "accepted" within 3 days), so it cannot measure review time
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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wolters Kluwer Health
- ISSN
- 2169-9798
- Electronic ISSN
- 2169-981X
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 42, Issue 5 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal for Nurses in Professional Development
What CAS zone is Journal for Nurses in Professional Development in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal for Nurses in Professional Development 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 Journal for Nurses in Professional Development?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 1.5, h-index 35.
What JCR quartile is Journal for Nurses in Professional Development in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q4; by category, NURSING Q4 (150/194). JCR quartiles are Clarivate's to confirm and a different system from the CAS zones; in the CAS ranking the journal is in Zone 4 of Medicine.
Which databases index Journal for Nurses in Professional Development?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Journal for Nurses in Professional Development open access, and what is the APC?
Journal for Nurses in Professional Development is a subscription journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; 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: .