Journal of Palliative Care
Last updated ISSN 0825-8597
Journal of Palliative Care is published by SAGE Publishing in medicine. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,150.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Palliative Care concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Ethics in medical practice
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0825-8597, 2369-5293 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,150 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 2,366 |
| Publishing since | 1968 |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal-of-palliative-care/ |
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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