International Journal of Mental Health Nursing

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Publication history

The journal started life in 1980 as the Journal of the Australian Congress of Mental Health Nurses, and was rebadged as the Australian Journal of Mental Health Nursing in 1990. [1] [2] The journal was relaunched in July 1992 as a fully refereed (peer-reviewed) journal. [2] [1] In 1994 it was renamed Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing [3] before obtaining its current name in 2002. [4] Articles have been published online since May 2002. From 2008, issues going back to 1999 were retrospectively made available online. The last printed version of the journal was volume 24, issue 6 (December 2015). [5]

The list of chief editors, arranged by year commenced, is as below: [1]

The journal has had a social media presence since June 2012, [1] and has had an active Social Media Editor since 2017. [5]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 5.100, ranking it 2nd out of 125 journals in the category "Nursing". [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McNamara, Paul (2022-05-25). "Happy anniversary IJMHN" . International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 31 (4): 767–771. doi:10.1111/inm.13025. ISSN   1445-8330. PMID   35614583. S2CID   249064893.
  2. 1 2 Martyr, P.J. (1999). Setting the Standard: a history of the Australian and New Zealand College of Mental Health Nurses, Inc. University of Tasmania. ISBN   978-0-9585564-3-9.
  3. "What's in a name?". Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 10 (4): 199. 2001. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-0979.2001.00211.x .
  4. Happell, Brenda (2007). "The Journal goes from strength to strength". International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 16 (1): 1. doi:10.1111/j.1447-0349.2006.00448.x. ISSN   1447-0349.
  5. 1 2 McNamara, Paul; Usher, Kim (2019). "Share or perish: Social media and the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing". International Journal of Mental Health Nursing. 28 (4): 960–970. doi:10.1111/inm.12600. PMID   31257702. S2CID   195759177.
  6. "Journals Ranked by Impact: Nursing". 2021 Journal Citation Reports . Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2022.