Journal profile · Nursing
Journal of Community Health Nursing
ISSN 0737-0016 · eISSN 1532-7655 · Routledge · UNITED STATES · Quarterly · Founded 1984
Journal of Community Health Nursing: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.93; JCR Q2 (journal website); subscription journal; APC charged, amount not published; median 108 days to acceptance (30 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 26 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Community Health Nursing is published by Routledge 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 Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes, Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations, together about 24.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The Journal of Community Health Nursing focuses on health care issues relevant to all aspects of community practice. This innovative publication provides well-researched and practical, up-to-date information to aid the nurse and other professionals who frequently make decisions and solve problems that occur in the community health setting. Areas of interest include: Home health care Visiting nursing services Clinics Hospices Education Public Health Assisted living and residential care facilities The journal is an international forum for community health professionals to share their experience and expertise with others in the field. All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous peer review. The Journal of Community Health Nursing publishes research and evidence-based practice articles relevant to nurses, as well as all other community health practitioners.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Nursing
Editor-in-chief Alice Schroeder, RN, MPAPublisher website
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Geriatric Care and Nursing HomesHealth Professions8.6%
- Diverse Scientific and Economic StudiesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance8.5%
- Food Security and Health in Diverse PopulationsHealth Professions7.4%
- School Health and Nursing EducationHealth Professions5.8%
- Homelessness and Social IssuesHealth Professions5.4%
- Health and Wellbeing ResearchHealth Professions5%
- Legal case studies and regulationsSocial Sciences4.7%
- Human auditory perception and evaluationEngineering4.4%
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
JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website
- JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
- CiteScore Q2 · 2025
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
SCIESSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
MEDLINEEmbasePsycINFOCINAHLCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Index Medicus, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, EBSCOhost Online Research Databases, Family Index Database, ISI: SciSearch, Social Research in Transport, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature, Journal Citation Reports Science, Journal Citation Reports Social Science, Risk Abstracts, RNdex Top 100, Family & Society Studies Worldwide (online and CD-ROM), ScienceDirect Navigator, Silver Platter Information, Inc.
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
- 1.93LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.37LetPub ·
- SJR (publisher) 2025
- 0.37Publisher website ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.6LetPub ·
- SNIP (publisher) 2025
- 0.6Publisher website ·
- h-index
- 31LetPub ·
- h-index
- 52OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 425OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.63OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 4.76%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 26LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 37,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,313 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 15 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | 26 | 5 | 26 |
| 2024 | 24 | 3 | 80 |
| 2023 | 35 | 4 | 177 |
| 2022 | 21 | 0 | 71 |
| 2021 | 23 | 3 | 136 |
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
108 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 88 days – 125 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 11 days (30 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 120 days
- Sample
- 30 articles with submission and acceptance dates (49 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)
- 5%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- First decision after review
- 44 daysPublisher 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
Subscription journalLetPub
A subscription journal: articles are read by subscription or purchase, and authors usually pay no publication charge.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteOpen access, Peer review
- Open access Open access
Hybrid open access journal (Taylor & Francis Open Select). Model summary
Journal of Community Health Nursing is a hybrid open access journal that is part of the Taylor & Francis Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research. Why choose open access? Increase the discove…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review
All review papers undergo editorial screening and anonymous peer review. Model summary
All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous peer review.
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
- Routledge
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 1984
- ISSN
- 0737-0016
- Electronic ISSN
- 1532-7655
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 43, Issue 3 (2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Community Health Nursing
What CAS zone is Journal of Community Health Nursing in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Community Health 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 Community Health Nursing?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.93; CiteScore 2, h-index 52.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Community Health Nursing?
Based on the dates recorded on 30 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 108 days (interquartile range 88–125 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 5%. 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 JCR quartile is Journal of Community Health Nursing in?
The journal's website gives JCR Q2 (best quartile). 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 of Community Health Nursing?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Community Health Nursing is indexed in SCIE, SSCI and Scopus. The journal's website also lists MEDLINE, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Journal of Community Health Nursing open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Community Health Nursing is a subscription journal. APC charged, amount not published.
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: .