International Journal of Nursing Studies ranked first for impact

Thomson Reuters 2014 Impact Factors for all academic journals, announced yesterday (18 June 2015), ranks the International Journal of Nursing Studies (IJNS) in first place out of 110 nursing journals, with an increased impact factor of 2.901.

The IJNS provides a forum for original research and scholarship about health care delivery, organisation, management,workforce, policy and research methods relevant to nursing, midwifery and other health related professions.

Professor Ian Norman, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery & Editor in Chief of the IJNS, said:  “The International Journal of Nursing Studies, published by Elsevier, is well established as the most influential academic nursing and midwifery journal in the world. It is the only journal to be consistently ranked within the top five in Thompson Reuters impact factor list of nursing journals since 2007.

"The rise in the impact factor of the IJNS and other nursing journals also provides evidence of the developing knowledge base of nursing and midwifery as practice disciplines to which nursing researchers at King’s College London and other universities in the UK make a substantial contribution.”

The Impact Factor helps evaluate a journal's impact compared to others in the same field by measuring the frequency with which recent articles in a journal have been cited in a particular year; the 2014 Impact Factor takes into account citations in 2014 to papers published in 2012 and 2013.

The full list can be downloaded here.