Journal profile · NURSING
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
ISSN 1073-6077 · eISSN 1744-6171 · Wiley-Blackwell
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.5 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 2,900; median 143 days to acceptance (70 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 38% (journal website); 46 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing is published by Wiley-Blackwell 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 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Family and Disability Support Research and Child Abuse and Trauma, together about 39.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing is the only nursing journal to focus exclusively on issues of child and adolescent mental health around the world. As the official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses Division of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, it is a primary resource for nurses and other healthcare professionals in clinical practice, education, and research. JCAPN includes peer-reviewed, original articles from a wide range of contributors in a broad variety of settings. Topics covered include psychosocial issues; psychopharmacology; the impact of interventions on cognitive, social, or emotional growth and development; environmental factors that facilitate or constrain mental health; social policy factors that influence the delivery of healthcare services; care of children experiencing emotional distress in schools; inpatient and outpatient settings; care within the juvenile justice system; and psychiatric nursing education and research. Abstracting and Indexing Information Academic Search (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Alumni Edition (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Elite (EBSCO Publishing) Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Publishing) British Nursing Database (ProQuest) CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (EBSCO Publishing) Education Collection (ProQuest) Education Database (ProQuest) Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics) Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage) Health & Medical Collection (ProQuest) Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest) Health Source Nursing/Academic (EBSCO Publishing) Hospital Premium Collection (ProQuest) InfoTrac (GALE Cengage) Medical Database (ProQuest) MEDLINE/PubMed (NLM) Nursing & Allied Health Database (ProQuest) Professional Development Collection (EBSCO Publishing) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Central K-297 Proquest Pharma Collection (ProQuest) ProQuest Professional Education (ProQuest) Psychology Collection (GALE Cengage) PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA) PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset (NLM) Research Library (ProQuest) Research Library Prep (ProQuest) SCOPUS (Elsevier) Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest) Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): NURSING
Editor-in-chief Y. SinemPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 8, United Kingdom 1, Australia 1, Türkiye 1, Ireland 1 (13 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychology20%
- Family and Disability Support ResearchPsychology13.1%
- Child Abuse and TraumaPsychology6.1%
- Child and Adolescent HealthHealth Professions4.8%
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and PostpartumMedicine4.1%
- Adolescent and Pediatric HealthcareHealth Professions3.9%
- Infant Development and Preterm CareMedicine3.6%
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of LifeMedicine3.2%
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.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
Web of ScienceMEDLINEPubMedPsycINFOCINAHLPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest
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 (publisher)
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 3Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.54LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.65LetPub ·
- h-index
- 58OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 429OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.09OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.7%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 32.04%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 33LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 38Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 155,033Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,608 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 33 | 24 | 4 |
| 2025 | 46 | 23 | 62 |
| 2024 | 49 | 23 | 201 |
| 2023 | 46 | 26 | 133 |
| 2022 | 44 | 12 | 256 |
| 2021 | 65 | 17 | 622 |
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
143 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 73 days – 183 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 12 days (70 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 155 days
- Sample
- 70 articles with submission and acceptance dates (81 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 38%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 38%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 28 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 28 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 109 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 10 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 2,900 / EUR 2,400 / GBP 1,930 | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
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)
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- brief reportse of EBPs or a case study.These can be brief reports of 3,000 to 5,000 words. Original Research Evidence Based projects are also sought.main text ≤ 5,000 words
- clinical/case studyClinical/case study Clinical and case study articles should focus on one particular clinical issue.Length not stated
- health policy/ethicsHealth policy/ethics Articles on health policy would deal with a specific issue and inspect critical background data to the issue as well as policy implications…Length not stated
- qualitative researchQualitative research Reports of qualitative research are welcome.Length not stated
- quality improvementQuality improvement manuscripts should be clearly identified as such.Length not stated
- quantitative researchQuantitative research Research reports are welcome.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Peer review, Preprints
- Publication ethics
IRB approval statement required in methods section for research reports Model summary
All research reports must contain a statement in the methods section about the protection of human subjects and approval by the appropriate institutional review board (IRB).
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review 1. Submission and Peer Review Process
The Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing is the only nursing journal to focus exclusively on issues of child and adolescent mental health around the world. As the official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses Division of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses, it is a primary resource for nurses and other healthcare profess…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Relevance to child and adolescent psychiatric nursing must be explicit; otherwise unsubmitted/rejected Model summary
In your manuscript you must make the relevance of the work to child and adolescent psychiatric nursing explicitly clear. Manuscripts that do not do so will be unsubmitted and may be rejected.
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- ISSN
- 1073-6077
- Electronic ISSN
- 1744-6171
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 39, Issue 4 (November 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing
What CAS zone is Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 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 of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 1.5 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3, h-index 58.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing?
Based on the dates recorded on 70 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 143 days (interquartile range 73–183 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 38% (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.
Where are the editorial board members of Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing 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 (8), United Kingdom (1) and Australia (1). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing is indexed in ESCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed, PsycINFO and CINAHL; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 2,900.
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: .