The ''International Journal of Mental Health Nursing'' (IJMHN) is a bimonthly
peer-reviewed
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medical journal
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History
The first ...
covering
psychiatric and mental health nursing. It is published by
Wiley and is the official journal of the
Australian College of Mental Health Nurses.
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.
The journal was relaunched in July 1992 as a fully refereed (peer reviewed) journal.
In 1994 it was renamed ''Australian and New Zealand Journal of Mental Health Nursing'' before obtaining its current name in 2002.
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).
The list of chief editors, arranged by year commenced, is as below:
* 1980 Dennis Cowell
* 1982 Ron Dee
* 1986 Owen Sollis
* 1987 Linda Salomons
* 1988 Andrew King
* 1990 Michael Clinton
* 1999 Michael Hazelton
* 2004 Brenda Happell
* 2015 Kim Usher (
University of New England University of New England may refer to:
* University of New England (Australia), in New South Wales, with about 18,000 students
* University of New England (United States), in Biddeford, Maine, with about 3,000 students
See also
*New England Colle ...
).
The journal has had a social media presence since June 2012,
and has had an active Social Media Editor since 2017.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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CINAHL
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Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences
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MEDLINE/
PubMed
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PsycINFO
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Scopus
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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".
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14470349
Psychiatric and mental health nursing journals
Wiley (publisher) academic journals
Publications established in 1992
English-language journals
Bimonthly journals