Journal profile · NURSING
Journal of Research in Nursing
ISSN 1744-9871 · eISSN 1744-988X · SAGE
Journal of Research in Nursing: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.1 (journal website); hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; review about 18 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 32.6% (journal website); 116 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Journal of Research in Nursing is published by SAGE 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, Health Sciences Research and Education and Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, together about 24.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Journal of Research in Nursing publishes quality research papers on healthcare issues that inform nurses and other healthcare professionals globally through linking policy, research and development initiatives to clinical and academic excellence. View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): NURSING
Editor-in-chief Sarah BekaertPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 12, United States 6, India 4, Iran 4, Indonesia 3 (54 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Nursing education and managementNursing11%
- Health Sciences Research and EducationHealth Professions8.1%
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesMedicine5.4%
- Interprofessional Education and CollaborationHealth Professions5.3%
- Geriatric Care and Nursing HomesHealth Professions5.2%
- Nursing Roles and PracticesHealth Professions5%
- Nursing Education, Practice, and LeadershipNursing4.8%
- Global Health Workforce IssuesHealth Professions4.5%
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 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Nursing | Zone 3 |
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
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)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 7.9Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.7LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.93LetPub ·
- h-index
- 64OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 633OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 1.73OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 28.77%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 60LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,906 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 185 | 179 | 82 |
| 2025 | 116 | 109 | 310 |
| 2024 | 103 | 103 | 307 |
| 2023 | 84 | 84 | 327 |
| 2022 | 96 | 96 | 625 |
| 2021 | 89 | 89 | 807 |
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 PubMed
Not usableThis publisher's "received" date is mostly when the revised manuscript arrived (33% of articles were "accepted" within 3 days), so it cannot measure review time
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 32.6%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 2 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 18 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 74 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 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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)
- Other fees
- Charged; see the journal's website for the amount
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
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 prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 200 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
- Not considered
- preprints
Article types accepted6, with length limits
- correspondenceView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of Research in Nursing welcomes research papers and reviews on nursing, whether clinic…Length not stated
- perspectivemporary topics in nursing and research. Perspectives are generally written in the first person and around 2000 words in length. JRN Perspectives are written by …main text ≤ 2,000 words
- research paperView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of Research in Nursing welcomes research papers and reviews on nursing, whether clinic…Length not stated
- research papersThe Journal considers the following kinds of article for publication: Research papers should be presented under the following section headings:Length not stated
- reviewView our Special Collections currently accepting submissions. The Journal of Research in Nursing welcomes research papers and reviews on nursing, whether clinic…Length not stated
- reviewsThe Journal of Research in Nursing welcomes research papers and reviews on nursing, whether clinical, research, education or management topics.Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints, Trial registration / reporting guidelines
- Authorship Author contributions
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review and publication process, this journal has adopted CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy). CRediT is a high-level taxonomy, including 14 roles, which is used to describe each author’s individual contributions to the work. You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. Open Access agreement …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Double anonymized peer review Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Editor Review information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be desk rejec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprints not accepted Model summary
The journal does not accept submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Trial registration / reporting guidelines Clinical trial registration
The journal endorses the ICMJE requirement that clinical trials are registered in a WHO-approved public trials registry at or before the time of first participant enrollment. However, consistent with the AllTrials campaign, retrospectively registered trials will be considered if the justification for late registration is acceptable. The trial registry name and URL, and registration number must be …
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
- SAGE
- ISSN
- 1744-9871
- Electronic ISSN
- 1744-988X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Journal of Research in Nursing
What CAS zone is Journal of Research in Nursing in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Journal of Research in 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 3 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Journal of Research in Nursing?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.1; this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 3.7, h-index 64.
How long does peer review take at Journal of Research in Nursing?
The publisher reports about 18 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 32.6%. 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 Journal of Research in Nursing?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 200 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Harvard; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. 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 Journal of Research in Nursing based?
Of the 54 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (12), United States (6) and India (4). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Journal of Research in Nursing?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Journal of Research in Nursing is indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Is Journal of Research in Nursing open access, and what is the APC?
Journal of Research in Nursing is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
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: .