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| Discipline | Nursing |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Carl A. Kirton |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1900-present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Hybrid | |
| 2.7 (2022) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Am. J. Nurs. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | AJNUAK |
| ISSN | 0002-936X (print) 1538-7488 (web) |
| LCCN | 06036097 |
| JSTOR | 0002936X |
| OCLC no. | 1743347 |
| Links | |
TheAmerican Journal of Nursing (AJN) is a monthly[1]peer-reviewednursing journal established in 1900. As of 2022[update] theeditor-in-chief isCarl Kirton[1] and it is published byLippincott Williams & Wilkins. 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 theSpecial Libraries Association.[2]
The journal was established in 1900 as the official journal of the Associated Alumnae of Trained Nurses of the United States which later became theAmerican Nurses Association.[3]Isabel Hampton Robb,Lavinia Dock,Mary E. P. Davis andSophia Palmer are credited with founding the journal,[4] the latter serving as the first editor.[5] Other editors have includedMary May Roberts (1921–1949),Nell V. Beeby (1949–1956), Jeanette V. White (1956–1957), Edith P. Lewis (1957–1959), Barbara G. Schutt (1959–1971), Thelma M. Schorr (1971–1981), Mary B. Mallison (1981–1993), Lucille A. Joel (1993–1998), Diana J. Mason (1998–2009), Maureen S. Kennedy (2009–2022), and Carl Kirton (2022-present)[6][7][8] The journal was originally published byJ. B. Lippincott & Co.[9] In 1996Lippincott Williams & Wilkins purchased the journal from the association of which it ceased to be the official journal, to the disappointment of then editor Mason.[8]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022impact factor of 2.7.[16]
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