MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
ISSN : 0361-929X eISSN : 1539-0683
Abbreviation : MCN Am. J. Matern. Nurs.
Aims & Scope
MCN's mission is to provide the most timely, relevant information to nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, and pediatric specialties.
MCN is a peer-reviewed journal that meets its mission by publishing clinically relevant practice and research manuscripts aimed at assisting nurses toward evidence-based practice.
MCN focuses on today's major issues and high priority problems in maternal/child nursing, women's health, and family nursing with extensive coverage of advanced practice healthcare issues relating to infants and young children.
Each issue features peer-reviewed, clinically relevant articles.
Coverage includes updates on disease and related care; ideas on health promotion; insights into patient and family behavior; discoveries in physiology and pathophysiology; clinical investigations; and research manuscripts that assist nurses toward evidence-based practices.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 1.80 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.441 |
Quartile
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 50 |
Journal Rank
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 12825 |
Journal Citation Indicator
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 296 |
Impact Factor Trend
Abstracting & Indexing
Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.
Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Nursing, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
Licensing & Copyright
This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.
Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.