BMC Nursing
Last updated ISSN 1472-6955
BMC Nursing is published by BioMed Central in nursing. It is open access. The article processing charge is $3,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in BMC Nursing concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Nursing education and management
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Workplace Violence and Bullying
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Ethics in medical practice
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
Key facts
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1472-6955 |
| Subject area | Nursing |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $3,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 5,468 |
| Publishing since | 1999 |
| Journal website | www.biomedcentral.com/bmcnurs/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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