About the Journal

Journal of Integrative Nursing (JIN, ISSN 2663-4481), Founded in 2019, is an internationally peer reviewed, online publishing English academic journal co-sponsored by Association of Integrative Nursing and Beijing Office of Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Competence Improvement Project, and published by Journal of International Translational Medicine Co., Ltd. It is published quarterly. 

Open Access

JIN is also an Open Access journal. All articles with full text are available for free download and reading upon publication without subscription charges or registration barriers. 

Aims and Scope

The journal aims to publish the latest research findings of nursing in the field of traditional Chinese and western medicine, to provide an academic platform for nursing exchanges at home and abroad, to promote academic development and discipline construction of integrative nursing, and to propagate academic characteristics and culture of integrative nursing.

    The journal publishes the following columns:

•     Clinical researches
•     Brief reports
•     Investigation studies
•     Case reports
•     Reviews
•     Letters to the editor
•     TCM style nursing
•     TCM rehabilitation nursing, etc.

    And subject areas include:

•     Clinical nursing
•     Evidence-based nursing
•     Care of the chronically ill
•     Nursing care of the elderly
•     Surgical nursing
•     Community care
•     Emergency nursing
•     Neonatal care
•     Pediatrics nursing
•     Infant and young children nursing
•     Wound and ostomy nursing
•     Gastroenterology nursing
•     Trauma nursing
•     Health care management
•     Addictions nursing
•     Health education, etc.

Abstracting and Indexing Information

The journal is indexed with, or included in, the following: Scopus, DOAJ, Scimago Journal Ranking, EroPub, Baidu Scholar, EBSCO Publishing's Electronic Databases, Ex Libris - Primo Central, Turk Medline, Google Scholar, Hinari, Infotrieve, ProQuest, TDNet, Wanfang Data, VIP, Ulrichsweb & Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory (UPD), etc.

Peer review policy

Journal of Integrative Nursing follows a single blinded peer review process. All research articles, and most other article types, published in Journal of Integrative Nursing undergo rapid and thorough peer review, and are usually reviewed by at least two independent peer reviewers. In this peer review process, the authors’ names and affiliations will be not  anonymous. That is, reviewers know the authors’ name and backgroud, but the authors don’t know the information of the reviewers.  Authors can provide suggested reviewers and disclose any competing interests.

Article processing change 

JIN does not charge submission and processing of manuscripts. 

Publisher 

Wolters Kluwer-Medknow Publications is one of the largest open access publishers worldwide with more than 300+ medical journals in its portfolio. Students, researchers, clinicians and other healthcare professionals worldwide access Medknow journals to help them fuel new discoveries and improve patient care.

Founded in 1997, Medknow is a well-respected medical publisher that fully supports many of the popular open access models through its peer-review management system. Medknow’s open access policy has resulted in more than a half a million article downloads monthly for all of its journals.

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Ahead of Print policy

Articles published online under the Ahead of Print model are considered published and can be cited and quoted using the DOI as the reference source. Wolters Kluwer Medknow and the Journal has a policy that changes will not be made after publication of an article without following accepted procedures for making corrections to the scientific record.

Journal Ethics

The Journal/Association are committed to meeting and upholding standards of ethical behavior at all stages of the publication process. We follow closely the industry associations, such as the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), that set standards and provide guidelines for best practices in order to meet these requirements. For a summary of our specific policies regarding duplicate publication, conflicts of interest, patient consent, etc., please visit www.Medknow.com/EthicalGuidelines.asp

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