Aims and Scope

The Journal of Advanced Nursing (JAN) is an international, peer-reviewed, scientific journal.  JAN contributes to the advancement of evidence-based nursing, midwifery and healthcare by disseminating high quality research and scholarship of contemporary relevance and with potential to advance knowledge for practice, education, management or policy.

All JAN papers are required to have a sound scientific, evidential, theoretical or philosophical base and to be critical, questioning and scholarly in approach.  As an international journal, JAN promotes diversity of research and scholarship in terms of culture, paradigm and healthcare context.  For JAN’s worldwide readership, authors are expected to make clear the wider international relevance of their work and to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural considerations and differences.

JAN publishes different types of papers:

REVIEWS

Review Papers

Systematic reviews of research evidence (qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods); meta-analyses, meta-summaries and meta-syntheses; aggregative and interpretive literature reviews.

Review Protocols

Protocols of original reviews of all types.

RESEARCH PAPERS

Original Research

Reports of original research of all types (i.e. all designs and methods) and in any field (i.e. practice, education, service delivery and evaluation, management).

Research Methodology

Papers on methodological issues and instrument developments.

Research Protocols

Protocols of original research of all types.

CONCEPT ANALYSIS PAPERS

Papers presenting formal and rigorous analysis of concepts that are relevant to advancement of nursing or midwifery knowledge.

DISCUSSION PAPERS

Scholarly papers presenting analysis and discussion of philosophical, conceptual, theoretical, professional practice or health policy issues or innovations.

AUTHORS AND READERS

The majority of papers in JAN are written by nurses and midwives but there are no constraints on authorship as long as papers fit with the expressed Aims and Scope. JAN’s intended readership includes practising nurses and midwives in all spheres and at all levels who are committed to advancing practice and professional development on the basis of new knowledge and evidence; managers and senior members of the nursing and midwifery professions; nurse educators and nursing students; and researchers in other disciplines with interest in common issues and interdisciplinary collaboration. Papers published in JAN are increasingly cited in reviews of evidence and used by other healthcare professionals, policy-makers, commissioners and users of services to inform their decision-making and practice. JAN is published in 12 issues per year, both in conventional form and online, with papers published online prior to publication in a paginated issue, through Wiley Interscience’s EarlyView service. A pay-to-publish service, OnlineOpen, is also available for those who want to make their papers freely available online for all to view and download. Papers are processed electronically from

submission to publication.

Free Access in the Developing World
Free online access to this journal is available within institutions in the developing world through the HINARI  initiative with the World Health Organization (WHO).