International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
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Editor-in-Chief:
Richard Garnet Booth
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Edited by:
Mary-Anne Andrusyszyn
About this journal
Objective
The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship (IJNES) publishes significant research and scholarship in the broad field of nursing education. The mandate of the journal is to present high quality papers to advance nursing education through research, description of innovative methods, or introduction of novel approaches about all aspects of nursing education in a timely manner. The specific aims of IJNES are to: promote worldwide scholarship in nursing education, enhance and advance nursing education globally, and provide a forum for the dissemination of international perspectives and scholarship in nursing education.
- Student, faculty, curriculum, and program development and evaluation
- Theoretically-based teaching and learning strategies in classroom, clinical, and flexible learning contexts
- Issues and trends in nursing education
- Administration and leadership of nursing education programs
Article formats
Research, expository, and short exemplar articles, as well as critical literature reviews about diploma, degree, post-graduate and continuing education are invited from colleagues around the world.
Your Benefits
- Most recent research and scholarship on nursing education
- International perspective on nursing education and the scholarship of nursing education
- Outstanding platform for communication about nursing education research and practice
History
One issue/year, updated continuously
Content available since 2004 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
ISSN: 1548-923X
Journal Impact Factor | 1.1 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
Journal Citation Indicator | 0.60 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
CiteScore | 2.5 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
SCImago Journal Rank | 0.488 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.589 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Submission
Online Submission of Manuscripts
Your benefits of publishing with us
- Easy-to-use online submission system
- Rapid review and publication times
- Prestigious editorial board
- Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
- Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
Submission of your paper via submission management tool (you will be guided through every step of the submission process)
Please note
To ensure that only articles which contribute meaningfully to the scholarship of nursing education will be published, accepted submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Be relevant and important to the field of nursing education
- Be of interest to an international audience
- Contribute original, thought-provoking ideas and sound argument
- Be applicable beyond the local context
- Present ideas in a succinct, coherent manner with logical flow and conclusions
- Include a description of the theoretical or conceptual base for the work being described
- Describe the relationship between the educational strategy or innovation and its theoretical or conceptual foundation (if a description of a strategy or innovation)
- Report well-designed studies (if research), with the theoretical or conceptual base evident in the design
- Report research studies that add to nursing education knowledge and do not simply replicate, in a different setting, what is already known through a substantial body of evidence
- Present logical organization and reasonable critique of literature with conclusions appropriate for either a critical or integrative literature review (if a literature review)
- Include current references and accurate citations
- Conform to accepted usage of the English language. If English is not your first language, please have it reviewed by a native English speaker
- Contribute meaningfully to the evidence or theory base of nursing education
- Before submitting your article please get familiar with our copyright agreement
- Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract. Detailed information can be found at Public Repositories tab
- If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for authors
- Please read the Information for Authors before submitting your article
- For every submission, authors have to fill out and upload the Template for Ethical and Legal Declarations at the time of the original submission. Instructions on how to make declarations can be found here.
- The Ethics Statements for our journal are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
- International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship follows Tier 2 of our Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to provide a data availability statement. Please refer to the Data Sharing Policy for guidance on how to write a data availability statement.
- As per De Gruyter policy, no author list changes are permitted after acceptance of an article. The De Gruyter production team is instructed to enforce this policy during the production/proofing process.
Hybrid Open Access
If your manuscript is accepted, you have the option to publish your article under an Open Access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints. Authors choosing to publish Open Access pay an article processing charge. All articles undergo peer review and will be accepted for publication based on the quality of their scientific contribution. Choosing Open Access publication has no influence on the peer review or acceptance process. Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish Open Access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and open access funding can be found here.
We look forward to receiving your manuscript!
Editor-in-Chief
Richard Booth, RN, PhD; Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada; rbooth5@uwo.ca
Potential article submissions should be sent to Dr. Booth's attention.
Editors
Mary-Anne Andrusyszyn, RN, BScN, MScN, EdD, FCNIE; Co-founding Editor, Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada; maandrus@uwo.ca
Hendrika (Rycki) Maltby, PhD, RN, FACN; Professor of Nursing, University of Vermont, Burlington Vermont USA; Hendrika.Maltby2020@gmail.com
Andrew Thomas Reyes, Ph.D., MScN, RN; Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, andrewthomas.reyes@unlv.edu
Associate Editors
Michael Kerr, PhD; Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; mkerr@uwo.ca; Statistical Consultant
Editorial Board
Phil Coleman, PhD, Staff Tutor/Senior Lecturer at The Open University, Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom, School of Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes. MK7 6AA; phil.coleman@open.ac.uk
César Leal Costa, PhD; Associate Professor (Nursing), University of Murcia, Department of Nursing, Murcia, Spain; cleal@um.es
Sandra DeYoung, EdD; RN William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, USA; DeYoungS@wpunj.edu
Helena Leino-Kilpi, PhD, RN; University of Turku, Turku, Finland; heleiki@utu.fi
Meg Moorman, PhD, RN, CNE, WHNP-BC. Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA; mmmoorma@iu.edu
Florence Myrick, RN, PhD; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; flo.myrick@ualberta.ca
Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN; Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina, USA; marilyn.oermann@duke.edu
Carole Orchard, RN, EdD; University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; corchard@uwo.ca
Judith Scanlan, RN, PhD; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; judith_scanlan@umanitoba.ca
Emeriti Editors
Carroll Louise Iwasiw, RN, MScN, EdD; Co-founding Editor and Professor, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada
Dolly Goldenberg, RN, BScN, MA, MScN, PhD; Co-founding Editor, Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada;
David Gregory, RN, BScN, MN, PhD, Founding Dean, University of Regina Faculty of Nursing, Canada;
Dean Care, RN, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Nursing, University of Manitoba and Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, Brandon University, Canada;
Carol McWilliam, EdD, RN; Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, University of Western Ontario, Canada;
Betty Cragg, BScN, MEd, EdD; Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Yolanda Babenko-Mould, MScN, PhD; Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada;
Editorial Assistants
Ryan Chan, RN, MScN, PhD (c)
Edmund J. Walsh, RN, MScN, PhD (c)
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