Mcn-The American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing
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Aims & Scope
MCN's mission is to provide the most timely, relevant information to nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, and pediatric specialties. MCN is a peer-reviewed journal that meets its mission by publishing clinically relevant practice and research manuscripts aimed at assisting nurses toward evidence-based practice. MCN focuses on today's major issues and high priority problems in maternal/child nursing, women's health, and family nursing with extensive coverage of advanced practice healthcare issues relating to infants and young children. Each issue features peer-reviewed, clinically relevant articles. Coverage includes updates on disease and related care; ideas on health promotion; insights into patient and family behavior; discoveries in physiology and pathophysiology; clinical investigations; and research manuscripts that assist nurses toward evidence-based practices.
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ImpaQ AnalysisMcn-The American Journal of Maternal-Child Nursing (acronym: mcn, abbr: MCN-AM J MATERN-CHIL, ISSN: 0361-929X) is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal in the field of Medicine, published by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. in United States since 1976. The periodical holds a Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of 1.90, ranking in quartile Q2 of Web of Science (SCIE), a Scopus SJR indicator of 0.349 (Q2), an H-index of 53.
The journal enforces rigorous peer evaluation with a publication frequency of Bimonthly, an annual output of approximately 41 scientific articles. In terms of accessibility and author fees, it operates under the Hybrid model with an estimated APC of $2,811 USD. It serves as a benchmark publication platform for academics, researchers, and doctoral candidates seeking global research visibility.
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