Clinical Nurse Specialist

ISSN 0887-6274 · Lippincott Williams & Wilkins · United States · active 1987–2026

Metrics

Best Scimago quartile (2025)
Q3
Cites per paper (2y)
0.7
SJR
0.261
h-index
60

“Cites per paper” is a two-year cited-by rate computed from OpenAlex. It is not a Clarivate Journal Impact Factor — we neither compute nor license that metric (how the two differ). Citation rates differ enormously between fields, so compare within a discipline. What the other figures mean: journal quartile, SJR, h-index and article processing charge.

Data as of 25 October 2026 (venue index build).

Scimago Journal Rank 2025

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Clinical Nurse Specialist is Q3 in 3 of its 4 subject categories and Q4 in the other 1. Its best category quartile is Q3.

Scimago 2025 quartile and rank of Clinical Nurse Specialist in each subject category
Subject categoryQuartileRank in category
Assessment and DiagnosisQ3#10 of 13
LPN and LVNQ3#12 of 17
Advanced and Specialized NursingQ3#40 of 74
Leadership and ManagementQ4#36 of 42
Cites per document (2 years, Scopus)
0.58
Documents indexed in 2025 (Scopus)
69

The quartile is the one Scimago prints for each category. Rank is the journal's position by SJR among the journals Scimago lists in that category (#1 is the highest); “—” means we hold no rank consistent with that quartile. The document count is what Scopus indexed that year, which can be lower than a journal's full output. Source: SCImago Journal Rank 2025 edition, from Scopus data (scimagojr.com, CC BY-NC).

Clinical Nurse Specialist is Q3 in 3 of its 4 Scimago subject categories (2025 edition; best category Assessment and Diagnosis: Q3, #10 of 13), with SJR 0.261 (Scimago) and an h-index of 60 (OpenAlex). Listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed.

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Scope

nursingrolespracticeshealthprofessionseducationpracticeleadershipissuesethicslegalaspects

Frequently asked

Is Clinical Nurse Specialist a predatory journal?

Our screening does not flag Clinical Nurse Specialist. That is not a guarantee of quality — it means the venue is not on Beall's archive (frozen since 2017) and does not match our name-pattern heuristic. It is listed in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, which is a positive signal.

Is Clinical Nurse Specialist indexed in Scopus or Web of Science?

Per our venue index, Clinical Nurse Specialist appears in: Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed. Index membership changes over time — confirm on the index's own site before relying on it.

What is the impact factor of Clinical Nurse Specialist?

Papers in Clinical Nurse Specialist are cited about 0.7 times each within two years of publication, and Scimago places it in Q3, with an h-index of 60. Those are the open equivalents: the Clarivate Journal Impact Factor is a proprietary metric we neither compute nor license, so we show the two-year citation rate and Scimago quartile instead — they answer the same question of how heavily the journal is cited. A citation rate is a property of a field as much as of a journal.

What Scimago quartile is Clinical Nurse Specialist (Q1, Q2, Q3, or Q4)?

In the Scimago Journal Rank 2025 edition, Clinical Nurse Specialist is Q3 in 3 of its 4 subject categories and Q4 in the other 1. By category: Assessment and Diagnosis: Q3, #10 of 13; LPN and LVN: Q3, #12 of 17; Advanced and Specialized Nursing: Q3, #40 of 74; Leadership and Management: Q4, #36 of 42. Its best category quartile is Q3. Quartiles split the journals in a subject category into four equal groups by SJR, so Q1 is the most-cited quarter and Q4 the least; Clinical Nurse Specialist is cited about 0.7 times per paper over two years, with an h-index of 60.

What is the Web of Science (JCR) quartile of Clinical Nurse Specialist?

The Web of Science quartile comes from Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a proprietary product we neither license nor compute — so we cannot state a JCR quartile for Clinical Nurse Specialist. The open equivalent is its best Scimago quartile, Q3 in Assessment and Diagnosis and 2 other categories, derived from Scopus citation data. Because JCR ranks against Web of Science and Scimago against Scopus, the two can differ, so check Clarivate's site directly if you need the JCR quartile specifically.

Is Clinical Nurse Specialist open access?

Our index records its access status as "subscription". Where this is derived from publisher-level signals rather than works-level data it is a heuristic, so confirm on the journal's own site — particularly if an article processing charge matters to you.

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