Nursing History Review

Aims & Scope

Nursing History Review, an annual peer-reviewed publication of the American Association for the History of Nursing, is a showcase for the most significant current research on nursing history.

Regular sections include scholarly articles, keynote lectures, and methodological papers as well as reviews of the latest media and publications on nursing and healthcare history.

Historians, researchers, and individuals fascinated with the rich field of nursing will find Nursing History Review an important resource.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.1

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	14

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	29720

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	1

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.102

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
• Medline

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Nursing, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The Historical Mirror: Restraining the Troublesome Patient A Historical Perspective on a Contemporary Debate

  Citation: 30

  Authors: NEVILLE E., NANCY

• Beyond the Glass Wall: Black Canadian Nurses, 1940–1970

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Karen

• Exchangees or Employees?: The Exchange Visitor Program and Foreign Nurse Immigration to the United States, 1945–1990

  Citation: 18

  Authors: BARBARA L.

• The Nadir of Nursing: Nurse-Perpetrators of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp

  Citation: 18

  Authors: SUSAN

• The Fork in the Road: Nursing History Versus the History of Nursing?

  Citation: 17

  Authors: SIOBAN

• Historiographic Essay: The Legacy of Domesticity: Nursing in Early Nineteenth-Century America

  Citation: 16

  Authors: PATRICIA O’BRIEN

• Rewriting Nursing History – Again?

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Celia

• Articles: “Making the Best of Things”: Technology in American Nursing, 1870–1940

  Citation: 15

  Authors: MARGARETE

• Historiographic Essay: Alternative Visions: The Nurse-Technology Relationship in the Context of the History of Technology

  Citation: 14

  Authors: JULIE

• Nursing the Great Society: The Impact of the Nurse Training Act of 1964

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Joan E.

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