The American Psychiatric Nurses Association has announced that the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) has been selected for coverage in Thomson Reuters products and services. The Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, published bi-monthly by Sage Publication Inc., is the official journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) and a respected conduit for publishing and disseminating psychiatric-mental health nursing scholarly research. Articles published in the journal will now be broadly indexed and accessible through Thomson Reuters Web-of-Science, significantly expanding their potential reach and impact on the field of psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Journals included in Thomson Reuters indexing are largely considered the world's leading scientific journals due to a rigorous selection process based on basic publishing standards, international diversity, and citation analysis. Thomson Reuters 2014 Journal Citation Reports® (JCR) shows an inaugural impact factor of 0.977 for the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association. This impact factor, which is based on the frequency of citations a journal's average article garners over a specified period, is the highest among psychiatric nursing journals.
The Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA) publishes psychiatric-mental health nursing research and scholarship that contributes both to knowledge development and the continuum of psychiatric-mental health care. Content spans mental health promotion and psychiatric treatment and recovery at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention across the lifespan. JAPNA circulates important developments and issues applicable to psychiatric-mental health nursing practice, education, research, theory, and policy. Articles, editorials, and special features describe critical and timely analysis of emerging issues and trends and discuss innovative models of practice as they are related to changing systems of healthcare.
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