Nurse Researcher
Last updated ISSN 1351-5578
Nurse Researcher is published by Royal College of Nursing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nurse Researcher concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Nursing education and management
- Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Academic Writing and Publishing
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
Key facts
| Publisher | Royal College of Nursing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1351-5578, 2047-8992 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,543 |
| Publishing since | 1978 |
| Journal website | journals.rcni.com/journal/nr |
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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