Cancer Nursing

Cancer Nursing is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering problems arising in the care and support of cancer patients from prevention and early detection to all treatment modalities, and specific nursing interventions. It is published by Wolters Kluwer.

Cancer Nursing

Discipline	Oncology nursing
Language	English
Edited by	Pamela S. Hinds
Publication details
History	1978–present
Publisher	Wolters Kluwer
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	1.844 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Cancer Nurs.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0162-220X (print) 1538-9804 (web)
LCCN	78645152
OCLC no.	03804001
Links
Journal homepage

For specialist nurses working with cancer patients, see Oncology nursing.

History

The journal was established in 1978, with Rachel Ayers and Carol Reed-Ash as its founding editors. Its current editor-in-chief is Pamela S. Hinds (George Washington University).

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• CINAHL
• MEDLINE
• PubMed

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.844.^[1]