Impact Factor
3.48
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
3.62
540 total citations
h5-index
26
h5 depth signal
Cited share
72.1%
111 of 154
Total citations
540
Citation footprint
Metric signal
3.61
External metric anchor
Self-citation
4.8%
26 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
Canada
186
United States
139
Australia
86
United Kingdom
84
Sweden
33
Citing Fields of Research
Patient Care
317
Sociology
166
Healthcare Policy
155
Psychiatry & Psychology
105
Education & Pedagogy
80
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,694
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
154
111 cited publications
Last 12 months
117
9.8 publications/month
Open access share
50.4%
59 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
Canada
186 citing publications
Leading citing field
Patient Care
317 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
13 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v1n1,Nov. 1994-
v1n1,Nov. 1994-
v1n1,Nov. 1994-v6n4,Dec. 1999
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Patient Care
Broad Categories
Nursing
Patient Care
Healthcare Policy
Political Philosophy
Anthropology
MeSH Descriptors
Nursing
Philosophy, Nursing
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1111/nin.70175
Open DOI
When Children's Needs Do Not Fit the System: Street‐Level Bureaucrats Facilitating Home Care for Children Living With Respiratory Support
This study explores the meanings of acting as a street‐level bureaucrat in facilitating home care for children living with respiratory support and their families. A phenomenological hermeneutic approach was used, based on interviews with...
02
DOI 10.1111/nin.70173
Open DOI
Caring Without the Body: Semantic Displacement From Embodied Nursing to Artificial Intelligence
This paper examines an ontological question raised by the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical care: what happens to concepts such as clinical intuition, suffering and presence when their origin shifts from the embodie...
03
DOI 10.1111/nin.70172
Open DOI
Beyond AI Agents: Why Agentic AI Needs Nursing Theory—And What Nursing Theory Would Need to Become
In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that models under evaluation had escaped the environment in which they were tested, reached the open internet without permission and taken data useful to their own improvement. The episode marks a practical...
04
DOI 10.1111/nin.70171
Open DOI
Seen but Silenced: Black Males Occupying White Academic Spaces
05
DOI 10.1111/nin.70170
Open DOI
Beyond Technification: Ontological and Hermeneutic Foundations of Nursing Care
In this article, we examine the ontological, hermeneutic, and temporal dimensions of nursing care to explore how contemporary nursing practice and professional identity may be understood beyond exclusively technical accounts of care. Dra...
06
DOI 10.1111/nin.70169
Open DOI
Voices on Fire: Narratives on Nurse Activism Amid Power Dynamics in the Philippines
This study explored the narratives of 10 Filipino nurse activists who transformed experiences of suffering, exploitation, and professional marginalization into organized resistance and advocacy. In the Philippine context, nurses continue...
07
DOI 10.1111/nin.70165
Open DOI
A Focused Ethnography of a 2S/LGBTQIA+ Liaison Nurse Role in Acute Care: Advancing Equity Through Relational Practice
Two‐Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other gender and sexual orientation diverse (2S/LGBTQIA + ) people experience profound interpersonal and structural discrimination in health care settings, co...
08
DOI 10.1111/nin.70167
Open DOI
Rethinking Empowerment in Healthcare: A Dynamic Continuum
Empowerment is a widely used term in healthcare literature, policy and practice, but its meaning is often inconsistent and increasingly framed as an individual outcome linked to self‐management, responsibility and compliance. However, su...
09
DOI 10.1111/nin.70168
Open DOI
When the Story Has Only One Ending: Narrative Foreclosure, Genre, and Suicidal Meaning in Nursing
Suicide‐focused nursing often depends on the language of risk, crisis, symptoms, and safety. These languages are necessary, yet they do not fully explain how a life can become narratively organized around only one plausible ending. This ...
10
DOI 10.1111/nin.70166
Open DOI
Whose Knowledge Counts in Labour? Obstetric Nurses Negotiating Clinical Judgement, Algorithmic Authority and Woman‐Centred Care in Artificial Intelligence–Enhanced Foetal Monitoring
Artificial intelligence–enhanced foetal monitoring is entering intrapartum care, yet little is known about how it reshapes the credibility of nursing knowledge, professional authority and relational practice. This interpretive descriptio...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Title from cover.
Print issues ceased with v. 19 (2012)
Vol. 1 complete in one issue.
Also issued online.
Vol. 1, no. 1 (NOV 1994)19950202 Notice published Printed on acid-free paper