The Nurse Practitioner
Last updated ISSN 0361-1817
The Nurse Practitioner is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Nurse Practitioner concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Medical Research and Practices
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Historical and modern epidemiology studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0361-1817, 1538-8662 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Emerging Sources Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 8,281 |
| Publishing since | 1974 |
| Journal website | journals.lww.com/tnpj/pages/default.aspx |
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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