Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Am. J. Nurs. Language English Publication history 1900-present | Edited by Maureen Shawn Kennedy | |
Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (USA) | ||
American Journal of Nursing is a monthly peer reviewed nursing journal. It was established in 1900. The editor-in-chief is Maureen Shawn Kennedy. It the a hybrid open access journal allowing authors to make their articles immediately open access for a fee and a delayed open access journal with a 7-year embargo. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. It is the oldest nursing journal still in publication. In 2009 the journal was selected as one of the "100 Most Influential Journals in Biology and Medicine in the Last 100 Years" by the Biomedical and Life Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association. The title is commonly abbreviated "AJN".
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Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.389, ranking it 22nd out of 103 journals in the category "Nursing".
History
The American Journal of Nursing was established in 1900 by the Associated Alumnae of Trained Nurses of the United States which later became the American Nurses Association (ANA). Isabel Hampton Robb, Lavinia Dock, Mary E.P. Davis and Sophia Palmer are credited with founding the journal. The first editor of the AJN was Palmer. Other editors have included Mary Roberts (1921–1949), Thelma M. Schorr (1971–1981) and Diana J. Mason. From 1900 to 2006 the American Journal of Nursing was the official journal of the ANA. It has been called the leading professional nursing journal. The AJN was originally published by J. B. Lippincott & Co.. In 1996 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins purchased the journal from the ANA. The split from the ANA occurred when the association chose to work with another publisher and was disappointing to Mason, then editor of the AJN.