Nursing Research
Last updated ISSN 0029-6562
Nursing Research is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in nursing. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nursing Research concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Nursing education and management
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Health Sciences Research and Education
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Nursing Roles and Practices
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0029-6562, 1538-9847 |
| Subject area | Nursing |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 12,215 |
| Publishing since | 1924 |
| Journal website | journals.lww.com/nursingresearchonline/pages/default |
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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