The Journal of Community Health Nursing focuses on health care issues relevant to all aspects of community practice. This innovative publication provides well-researched and practical, up-to-date information to aid the nurse and other professionals who frequently make decisions and solve problems that occur in the community health setting.
Areas of interest include:
Home health care
Visiting nursing services
Clinics
Hospices
Education
Public Health
Assisted living and residential care facilities
The journal is an international forum for community health professionals to share their experience and expertise with others in the field. All review papers in this journal have undergone editorial screening and anonymous peer review. The Journal of Community Health Nursing publishes research and evidence-based practice articles relevant to nurses, as well as all other community health practitioners.
Journal metrics
Usage
36K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.8 (2023) Impact Factor
1.5 (2023) 5 year IF
1.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.491 (2023) SNIP
0.255 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
1 days avg. from submission to first
decision
15 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
6% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
EDITORIAL BOARD Nancy E. Allen, BSN, RNC, CMC - Solutions for Care Inc. Jacksonville Beach, Florida Janice Bell, MN, MPH, PhD, FAAN - University of California-Davis, Sacramento, California Mabel Ezeonwu, PhD, RN - University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, Washington Arlene J. Chabanuk, MSN, RN, CDE - Crozer Keystone Home Care & Hospice, Springfield, Pennsylvania Lisa Mansfield, PhD, RN - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Tina M. Marrelli, MSN, MA, RNC, FAAN - Marrelli and Associates, Inc., Health Care Consultants and Publishers, Venice, Florida Katryna McCoy, PhD, MN, FNP - School of Nursing, College of Health & Human Services, University of North Carolina Charlotte, North Carolina Elijah Onsomu, PhD, MPH, MS - Winston-Salem State University, Winston Salem, North Carolina Barbara Piskor, MPH, RN, NEA-BC - BKP HealthCare Resources, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Alice Running, PhD, APRN - Montana State University Mark and Ronin Jones School of Nursing, Bozeman, Montana Jingxi Sheng, PhD, RN - University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Madison, Wisconsin Carol Shieh, DNSc, MPH, RNC-OB, FAAN - Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana Thomas E. Stenvig, PhD, MPH, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN - South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota Meredith Troutman-Jordan, PhD, RN, PMHCNS-BC, FGSA - University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina Anna Winquist, PhD, MN, RN - College of Nursing, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado Cynthia Wu Sau Ting, RN, PhD - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China Susan J. Zahner, RN, DrPH - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Abstracting and indexing
Journal of Community Health Nursing is abstracted/indexed in: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts; Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology; Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: Health & Safety Science Abstracts; Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL); Current Contents/Clinical Medicine; Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Family Index Database; Index Medicus/Medline; ISI: SciSearch, Social Research in Transport; Social Sciences Citation Index, Social SciSearch; Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature; Journal Citation Reports Science; Journal Citation Reports Social Science; PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts; Risk Abstracts; RNdex Top 100; Family & Society Studies Worldwide (online and CD-ROM); ScienceDirect Navigator; Scopus; and Silver Platter Information, Inc.
Open access
Journal of Community Health Nursing is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
Why choose open access?
Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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