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Aims and scope

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing: Building Evidence for Practice is an international peer-reviewed journal that contributes to the knowledge base of children’s nurses and other health care professionals who care for children in all health care settings.

Content topics appropriate for the journal include those related to all aspects of knowledge translation (evidence-based practice) into child health care practice. This includes:

Original quantitative and qualitative research;
Systematic reviews of the literature;
Descriptions of processes/projects such as service evaluations and audits that have successfully translated knowledge into practice, including descriptions of quality assurance and performance improvement strategies; and
Measurement of healthcare outcomes.

In addition, manuscripts related to child health care policy, organizational management, and ethics will be considered.

Journal metrics

Usage

72K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

1.1 (2023) Impact Factor
1.2 (2023) 5 year IF
2.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.668 (2023) SNIP
0.343 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

16 days avg. from submission to first decision
28 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
18% acceptance rate

Understanding and using journal metrics

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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.

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Journal metrics in brief

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.

For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.

*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Edward Alan Glasper

Professor Of Nursing

Faculty Of Health Sciences

The University of Southampton, UK

International Editorial Board Members

Australia

Linda Shields - Charles Sturt University, Australia

Valerie Wilson - Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District and University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Canada

Caroline Sanders - University of British Columbia, Canada

England

Bernie Carter- Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, England

Jane Coad - Coventry University, England

Kath Evans - NHS England, England

Tony Long - University of Salford, England

Penny McDougall - Evelina London Children’s Hospital, England

Wendy McInally - Open University, England

Nick Medforth - Liverpool John Moores University, England

Sarah Neill - University of Northampton, England

Jane Price - Kingston and St. George's University, England

Duncan Randall - University of South Hampton, England

J.D. Richardson - Kingston and St. George's University, England

Italy

Annamaria Bagnasco - University of Genoa, Italy

Netherlands

Corry van den Hoed-Heerschop - Dutch Association of Paediatric Nurses, Linschoten

New Zealand

Elaine McCall - Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Starship Children's Hospital, New Zealand

Northern Ireland

Julie Brown - Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Sonya Clarke - Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland

Republic of Ireland

Maria Brenner - School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

United States of America

Jane Bliss-Holtz - Meridian Health Ann May Center, NJ, USA

Kathleen Hanna - Indiana University School of Nursing, IN, USA

Bonnie Harbaugh - The University of Southern Mississippi College of Nursing, MS, USA

Rose Margaret - Indiana University School of Nursing, IN, USA

Lynn D. Mohr - Rush University Medical Center, College of Nursing, IL, USA

Lynn Rew - The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

Wales

Alyson Davies - Swansea University, Wales

Abstracting and indexing

• Adis International Ltd.
• EBSCOhost
• EMBASE
• Scopus, 1983-ongoing, 1978-1981
• E-psyche
• International Atomic Energy Agency; INIS Collection Search (International Nuclear Information System)
• National Library of Medicine; PubMed/MEDLINE
• OCLC
• Ovid
• ProQuest
• Emerging Sources Citation Index
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Open access

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent 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)

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News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

Now indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index!

Currently known as:

Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing (2016 - current)

Formerly known as

Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing (1976 - 2015)

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Abstracting and indexing

Open access

Why choose open access?

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