Impact Factor
3.08
Journal Citation Impact
Estimated influence, citation density, publishing volume, and citation integrity from the analytics table.
Citation rate
2.51
274 total citations
h5-index
19
h5 depth signal
Cited share
67.0%
73 of 109
Total citations
274
Citation footprint
Metric signal
2.47
External metric anchor
Self-citation
17.2%
47 self-citations
Citations Trend
Monthly Publications Cadence
Citing Geographic Demographics
Canada
126
United States
106
United Kingdom
72
Australia
44
Sweden
21
Citing Fields of Research
Patient Care
175
Philosophy
171
Psychiatry & Psychology
86
Information & Library Science
79
Sociology
75
Publishing Activity & Reach
Volume, recency, access pattern, and citing-community signals from the journal analytics record.
All-time article footprint
1,205
Articles tracked across the journal lifetime
Indexed publication set
109
73 cited publications
Last 12 months
83
6.9 publications/month
Open access share
49.4%
41 OA publications in the last year
Leading citing country
Canada
126 citing publications
Leading citing field
Patient Care
175 citing publications
Latest tracked publication
18 October 2026
10 recent records available
Coverage & Indexing History
v4n1,Apr. 2003-
v4n1,Apr. 2003-
Active Coverage
Research Focus & Classification
Indexed Subjects
Philosophy
Patient Care
Sociology
Information & Library Science
Education & Pedagogy
Psychiatry & Psychology
Broad Categories
Ethics
Nursing
Patient Care
Philosophy
Healthcare Policy
Political Philosophy
Palliative Care
MeSH Descriptors
Nursing
Philosophy, Nursing
Latest Publications
Recent article records with DOI-first linking and condensed abstracts.
01
DOI 10.1111/nup.70132
Open DOI
In Nietzsche's Sickroom: Kafka, the Will to Power, and a Tragic Ontology of Nursing
Nursing philosophy has drawn on Friedrich Nietzsche before, but almost always to theorise the nurse's professional identity or the profession's political position: his Übermensch as a figure of self‐overcoming against managerial instrume...
02
DOI 10.1111/nup.70130
Open DOI
Caring for the Person's Mirror: The Entrustment of the Data‐Person as a Nursing Theory for the Algorithmic Age
Health data are born of a person's lived reality and carry that reality with them. They inhabit the systems that receive them, they feed the algorithms that learn from them, and they outlive the encounter in which they were produced. Nur...
03
DOI 10.1111/nup.70129
Open DOI
Nursing Werk 1 : Camp and Performance in Nursing
The nursing imaginary is populated with a plurality of feminine and feminized archetypes. These images reinforce a particular order of things for nurses and nursing, marching out well‐worn stereotypes link gender and sexuality. Less atte...
04
DOI 10.1111/nup.70126
Open DOI
When Complexity Becomes Ordinary: Expertise and the Recognition Paradox in Nursing Practice
This paper develops the recognition paradox in nursing practice: expertise can increase the capacity to manage clinically complex situations while rendering the relational work through which they are managed less available for reflective...
05
DOI 10.1111/nup.70128
Open DOI
Camp Aesthetics as an Ethics of Transnormative Care: Challenging the Seriousness of Nursing From the Perspective of Latin American Travesti‐Trans Theory
This article argues that the ‘politics of seriousness’ in nursing operates as a cis‐normative control mechanism that imposes sterile professional distances. To address the care of transvestite‐trans people, it proposes—drawing on the epi...
06
DOI 10.1111/nup.70123
Open DOI
Rethinking Organisational Justice in Healthcare Through Nurses' Voices: Insights From Nancy Fraser's Theory of Justice
Organisational justice has emerged as a key area of interest given the challenges of protecting the health and well‐being of nurses in healthcare organisations. Existing research shows significant conceptual and methodological limitation...
07
DOI 10.1111/nup.70124
Open DOI
Critically Exploring Vulnerability in Frail Older Adults Following a Fall
Vulnerability is widely invoked in healthcare, bioethics, and nursing, yet it remains poorly defined because universal human susceptibility, situational exposure to harm, and clinical frailty are frequently treated as interchangeable. Th...
08
DOI 10.1111/nup.70125
Open DOI
Knowing Pain Without Certainty: Recognition When Self‐Report is Unavailable
Pain assessment often follows a hierarchy: self‐report is treated as the gold standard, while behavioural and physiological evidence are used when the report is unavailable. This protects patients against professional disbelief but can m...
09
DOI 10.1111/nup.70120
Open DOI
Reading Incivility Through Camp: Moral Binaries in Nursing Education
In the United States context, incivility in nursing education is widely studied as a behavioral problem to be measured and remedied. In contrast, civility has been conceptualized as a professional virtue that is foundational to nursing i...
10
DOI 10.1111/nup.70122
Open DOI
The Moral Economy of Nursing Research: Commodification, Metricisation and Scholarly Integrity
This paper offers a philosophical critique of the moral economy of nursing research under conditions of commodification and metricisation. Using the concept of the junkification of research as an analytic lens, it examines tensions that ...
Bibliographical & Catalog Notes
Title from cover.
Print issues ceased with v.13 (2012)
Also issued online.