Nursing Inquiry

Aims & Scope

Nursing Inquiry aims to stimulate examination of nursing's current and emerging practices, conditions and contexts within an expanding international community of ideas.

The journal aspires to excite thinking and stimulate action toward a preferred future for health and healthcare by encouraging critical reflection and lively debate on matters affecting and influenced by nursing from a range of disciplinary angles, scientific perspectives, analytic approaches, social locations and philosophical positions.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3
2024	2.20

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.842

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	64

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	6299

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	595

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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.

• Hermeneutic research in nursing: developing a Gadamerian‐based research method

  Citation: 360

  Authors: Valerie, Uta, Yvonne

• Marginalization: Conceptualizing patient vulnerabilities in the framework of social determinants of health—An integrative review

  Citation: 247

  Authors: Foster Osei, Anne M., Barbara

• A review of empathy education in nursing

  Citation: 220

  Authors: Scott, Scott, Melissa

• The heart of the art: emotional intelligence in nurse education

  Citation: 203

  Authors: Dawn, Theodore

• Workplace bullying in nursing: towards a more critical organisational perspective

  Citation: 183

  Authors: Marie, Margaret, Debra, Lesley

• Emotional labor and nursing: an under‐appreciated aspect of caring work

  Citation: 157

  Authors: Angela

• Safety in psychiatric inpatient care: The impact of risk management culture on mental health nursing practice

  Citation: 148

  Authors: Allie, Emily, Vicky

• Compassionate care: a moral dimension of nursing ^*

  Citation: 147

  Authors: Erich, Angelica

• Distanciation in Ricoeur's theory of interpretation: narrations in a study of life experiences of living with chronic illness and home mechanical ventilation

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Pia Sander, Birthe D

• Discriminating among grounded theory approaches

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Kendra L.

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