Reimagining policy visibility: Bibliometric analysis of core nursing journals

IF 4.1 2区医学 Q1 NURSING

Nursing Outlook Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI:10.1016/j.outlook.2025.102360

Ruth Ludwick PhD, RN-BC, APRN-CNS, FAAN , Margarete L. Zalon PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAAN , Rebecca M. Patton DNP, RN, CNOR, FAAN , Micaela McSpadden MSN-Ed, RN, CNE, CNOR-PEDS , Anita J. Slack MA, MLIS, AHIP , Kristin Baughman PhD

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Abstract

Background

Providing nurses with knowledge about policy enhances their involvement in policymaking. Policy inclusion in editorial guidelines has yet to be examined.

Purpose

Describe how peer-reviewed nurse journals' editorial information communicates policy expectations to readers and authors and then to describe policy in articles published in those journals.

Methods

Using a list of nursing journals indexed in CINAHL, we analyzed each journal's author guidelines and key attributes. Journals that addressed policy guidelines were examined for articles that denoted policy as the subject focus, and the research team descriptively analyzed those articles.

Findings

Only half the journals included policy as a focus (aim, scope, or description), author guidelines, or column. Within this subset of journals, only 267 articles published in 2022 out of 4,085 (5.6%) had policy as a subject focus.

Discussion

Consistently and regularly addressing policy in nursing journals may facilitate nurse authors’ dissemination and reader awareness about policy.

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Nursing Outlook 医学-护理

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

7.00%

发文量

109

审稿时长

25 days

期刊介绍： Nursing Outlook, a bimonthly journal, provides innovative ideas for nursing leaders through peer-reviewed articles and timely reports. Each issue examines current issues and trends in nursing practice, education, and research, offering progressive solutions to the challenges facing the profession. Nursing Outlook is the official journal of the American Academy of Nursing and the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science and supports their mission to serve the public and the nursing profession by advancing health policy and practice through the generation, synthesis, and dissemination of nursing knowledge. The journal is included in MEDLINE, CINAHL and the Journal Citation Reports published by Clarivate Analytics.