The Open Nursing Journal
Last updated ISSN 1874-4346
The Open Nursing Journal is published by Bentham Science Publishers in nursing. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Open Nursing Journal concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Nursing education and management
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health and Wellbeing Research
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Resilience and Mental Health
Key facts
| Publisher | Bentham Science Publishers |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1874-4346 |
| Subject area | Nursing |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 553 |
| Publishing since | 2007 |
| Journal website | benthamopen.com/TONURSJ/home/ |
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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