MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing

MCN The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal written for nurses who work with childbearing families, newborn babies and children, and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins of the Wolters Kluwer Health group has held its publishing contract since volume 1 in 1976.《美国母婴护理杂志》是一份双月刊同行评议护理期刊，读者面向生育家庭，新生儿与儿童护理岗位上的护士，自 1976 年第 1 卷起由 Wolters Kluwer Health 集团旗下的 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 出版。

The leading initialism MCN answers to the maternal and child nursing named in the subtitle and has stood at the head of the title since the first issue, catalogues differing only over whether a colon follows it.刊首的简称 MCN 对应副题里的母婴护理，自创刊号起就摆在正题名前端，各编目机构只是在其后是否加冒号上各有取舍。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor reads 1.9 against a five-year figure of 2.2, and Journal Citation Reports place the journal in the second quartile of NURSING, ranked 95 among the 194 titles carried on both the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index.该刊 2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子 2.2，Journal Citation Reports 把它列在 NURSING 类目的 Q2，两种引文索引共同收录的 194 种刊中排第 95 位。

Scope

• The mission statement names its readers directly, nurses practicing in perinatal, neonatal, midwifery and pediatric specialties, and promises them the most timely and relevant information in the field.办刊使命直接点出读者，围产期，新生儿，助产与儿科执业的护士，并承诺给出这一领域最及时，最贴切的信息。
• Practice articles and research manuscripts share the same pages, and both are expected to move a reader toward evidence-based care rather than record one institution's settled habit.实践类文章与研究论文同页刊发，两类稿件都被要求把读者推向循证护理，而不是记下某家机构的既有习惯。
• Maternal and child health nursing frames the whole list, with women's health and family nursing inside that frame and advanced practice questions about infants and young children given wide room.母婴健康护理是总框，妇女健康与家庭护理都在框内，围绕婴幼儿的高级执业问题也占有较大版面。
• Standing coverage, in the journal's own wording, includes updates on disease and the care around it, ideas on health promotion, insight into patient and family behavior, findings in physiology and pathophysiology, clinical investigations and research reports.自述的常规覆盖面包括疾病与其护理的进展，健康促进的思路，患者与家庭行为的观察，生理与病理生理的新发现，临床调查与研究报告。
• Labor and birth fill a large part of every volume, from induction and augmentation trends to cesarean birth among low-risk first-time mothers and the reading of the electronic fetal monitor.产程与分娩在各卷中都占很大比重，从引产与催产的趋势到低风险初产妇的剖宫产，再到电子胎儿监护的判读均有专文。
• Breastfeeding and human milk form a second pillar, covering lactation support in level three intensive care units, feeding after breast reduction surgery, milk expression when mothers return to work and the wording clinicians use about lactation.母乳喂养与人乳构成第二支柱，涉及三级重症病房的泌乳支持，缩乳手术后的哺乳，母亲返岗后的挤奶安排，以及临床描述泌乳时应取的措辞。
• The working conditions of the perinatal nurse are a recurring subject, with minimum staffing rules, missed nursing care, burnout and moral distress across nurses, midwives and physicians on maternity units.围产期护士的执业处境是反复出现的主题，最低人力配置规定，护理缺失，护士，助产士与医生的职业倦怠和道德困扰都写在其中。
• Access to maternity care runs as a third thread, taking in rural hospitals, safety-net institutions, the integration of community doulas, and federal or state policy shifts that alter what a pregnant woman can reach.产科医疗可及性是第三条线索，农村医院与安全网机构的供给，社区陪伴分娩人员的融入，以及改变孕妇能获得何种服务的联邦与州两级政策变动都在讨论之列。
• Perinatal mental health and perinatal loss are handled as clinical business, from screening for postpartum depression at well-baby visits to trauma-informed care and bereavement support after a loss.围产期心理健康与围产期丧失被当作临床事务处理，从幼儿保健门诊的产后抑郁筛查到创伤知情照护，再到丧失之后的哀伤支持都有稿件。
• Medical complications of pregnancy appear regularly, among them hypertensive disorders and gestational diabetes, euglycemic ketoacidosis, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, amniotic fluid embolism and the placenta accreta spectrum.妊娠内科并发症经常刊出，妊娠期高血压疾病与妊娠期糖尿病，正常血糖酮酸中毒，血栓性血小板减少性紫癜，羊水栓塞与胎盘植入谱系疾病皆在其内。
• Newborn content reaches from updates on neonatal resuscitation guidance to low five-minute Apgar scores, hypoxia in the term infant and the practice of keeping mothers beside intensive care babies.新生儿内容自复苏指南的更新延伸开来，涵盖 5 分钟 Apgar 评分偏低，足月儿缺氧，以及让母亲留在重症患儿身边的照护安排。
• Environmental and global angles keep their place, with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, heat metrics tied to maternal-child emergency diagnoses, global maternal mortality and the state of the world's nursing all reviewed.环境与国际视角保留版面，全氟与多氟烷基物质，与母婴急诊诊断相关的高温指标，全球孕产妇死亡，以及世界护理状况报告都曾被梳理。
• Article forms include original research, scholarly reviews of an evidence base, concept analyses, quality improvement reports, multi-part practice series, case-based features and standing columns.刊发文体包括原创研究，针对证据基础的学理综述，概念分析，质量改进报告，多部分实践系列，案例类文章与固定栏目。

History

• MCN grew out of the American Journal of Nursing Company, an enterprise owned by the American Nurses Association that had published American Journal of Nursing since 1900 and added Nursing Research and Nursing Outlook in 1953.该刊出自美国护理杂志公司，这家由美国护士协会持有的机构自 1900 年起出版 American Journal of Nursing，又在 1953 年添上 Nursing Research 与 Nursing Outlook 两种刊。
• Volume 1 number 1 arrived in January and February 1976 with Barbara E. Bishop, MN, RN, FAAN, as editor, a chair she kept until the last issue of 1997.第 1 卷第 1 期于 1976 年 1 至 2 月问世，主编为 Barbara E. Bishop（MN，RN，FAAN），她坐这把交椅直到 1997 年的最后一期。
• Bishop's opening page told readers the journal was a joint venture whose success rested on a lively exchange between editor and bedside nurse, a statement still reachable through its own registered identifier.Bishop 在开篇告诉读者这份刊是一份共同事业，成效取决于编辑部与床旁护士之间的活跃往来，这段文字至今可用自有编号检索到。^[1]
• Publisher rules then asked a new title for 1500 subscriptions before launch, and MCN had roughly 500. Lippincott printed the first issue anyway, and by the fourth issue in July 1976 the journal was profitable, ending its first year with 25000 subscribers and a six-issues-a-year rhythm already fixed.当时出版方要求新刊上市前先有 1500 份订阅，MCN 只攒到约 500 份，Lippincott 仍旧付印首期，到 1976 年 7 月的第 4 期刊物已实现盈利，首年结束时订户达 25000，一年 6 期的双月节奏也已定下。
• Bishop built the early format around columns, among them Professionally Speaking, Pharmacopoeia, Focus on Legal Issues and Focus on Patient Teaching.Bishop 用栏目搭起早期版式，旗下包括 Professionally Speaking，Pharmacopoeia，Focus on Legal Issues 与 Focus on Patient Teaching。
• The Research Circuit, launched in March 1978, digested freshly published studies and is the direct ancestor of the current column Toward Evidence Based Practice. Keys to Research followed from May 1981 and ran into the later 1990s.1978 年 3 月开栏的 The Research Circuit 评述刚刚发表的研究，是现有栏目 Toward Evidence Based Practice 的直接前身，Keys to Research 则从 1981 年 5 月一直办到 90 年代后期。
• Letters to the editor, book and film reviews, conference notices and continuing education material filled every issue, some carried an Accolades section honoring nurses in the field, and the journal's own pages record at least four MCN conventions of two or three days held in different cities.读者来信，书评与影评，会议通告，继续教育材料按期登满，部分期次另有 Accolades 版块用以表彰在岗护士，刊物自身页码中还留下至少四次 MCN 年会的记载，会期两三天，巡回不同城市。
• In August 1996 the American Journal of Nursing Company sold its journal holdings to Lippincott-Raven Publishers, gathering ownership and publishing under one roof and leading, through later Wolters Kluwer Health reorganizations, to today's Lippincott Williams & Wilkins operation in Hagerstown, Maryland.1996 年 8 月美国护理杂志公司将旗下期刊整体售予 Lippincott-Raven Publishers，所有权与出版权由此归拢一处，经 Wolters Kluwer Health 后续重组，落到今天设于马里兰州 Hagerstown 的 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 名下。
• Margaret Comerford Freda, EdD, RN, CHES, FAAN, began as editor in January 1998, and the change was announced in the May and June 1998 issue on page 161 of volume 23.Margaret Comerford Freda（EdD，RN，CHES，FAAN）于 1998 年 1 月出任主编，这次换帅在 1998 年 5 至 6 月号公布，见第 23 卷第 161 页。^[2]
• Freda set a target of half practice content and half research, and she led the effort to have nursing specialty titles, MCN among them, listed in the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports so that nursing could claim impact factors.Freda 定下实践内容与研究内容各占一半的目标，并推动包括 MCN 在内的护理专科期刊进入 Thomson Reuters 的 Journal Citation Reports，让护理学科也能拿到影响因子。
• Her tenure added columns on nutrition, health informatics, global health and recently published studies, introduced a second-opinion format in which two experts argued a contested topic, and started the MCN Paper of the Year awards.她在任内增设营养，健康信息学，全球健康与近期研究述评等栏目，引入由两位专家辩论争议议题的第二意见版块，并创办 MCN 年度论文奖。
• A special issue marked the 25th anniversary in 2000, the same year the International Nursing Index stopped covering the journal, while MEDLINE and PubMed listings had run unbroken from volume 1 number 1.2000 年的专刊纪念创刊 25 周年，同年 International Nursing Index 停止收录该刊，MEDLINE 与 PubMed 的收录则自第 1 卷第 1 期起从未中断。
• Freda resigned in January 2014 and died in April 2015. Kathleen Rice Simpson started in the same month, and during her years the impact factor climbed to a reported high of 2.5.Freda 于 2014 年 1 月卸任，2015 年 4 月去世，Kathleen Rice Simpson 同月接手，在她任内该刊影响因子一度升到 2.5。
• Column slots turned over with their writers, the nutrition column becoming breastfeeding-specific after its author retired and the health informatics column closing once electronic records and online search had become routine equipment.栏目随撰稿人进退，营养专栏的原作者退休后该版面改为哺乳专题，健康信息学专栏则在电子病历与在线检索成为日常装备之后停办。
• The 50th anniversary in 2025 was marked by a reckoning with some 300 past issues, and that December a revived writing-tips column appeared under the name Writing and Research Tips from Experts, its inaugural piece authored by one of the journal's fellows for that year.2025 年的 50 周年以清点近 300 期过刊的方式纪念，同年 12 月复办的写作辅导栏目定名 Writing and Research Tips from Experts，首篇出自该年度驻刊研究员之手。^[3]
• Two identifier stems trace the ownership trail, backfile items registered under 10.1097/00005721 with a date code and current articles under 10.1097/NMC with a serial number.两种编号前缀勾勒出归属沿革，过刊条目登在 10.1097/00005721 之后接日期码，现行文章登在 10.1097/NMC 之后接流水号。
• Recent measures put MCN at about 35 citable items and 1213 citations a year, with a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.68, a cited half-life of 7.9 years and a gold open access share of 3.48 percent, the title itself remaining a subscription journal outside DOAJ.近期指标显示该刊年发文量约 35 篇，总被引 1213 次，期刊引文指标 0.68，被引半衰期 7.9 年，金色开放获取占比 3.48%，刊物本身仍是订阅制，未进入 DOAJ。

Editors

• Kathleen Rice Simpson, PhD, RNC, FAAN, edits the journal as a perinatal clinical nurse specialist based in Saint Louis, Missouri, and her author note has carried the words Editor-in-Chief from January 2014 onward.现任主编 Kathleen Rice Simpson（PhD，RNC，FAAN）是驻 Saint Louis（密苏里州）的围产期临床护理专家，自 2014 年 1 月起在文末署名中标注主编身份。
• Before taking the journal she spent three decades in a hospital labor and delivery unit and served as senior editor of Perinatal Nursing, the membership journal of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.接手本刊之前她在医院产房工作了 30 年，并曾任美国妇女健康，妇产科与新生儿护士协会会刊 Perinatal Nursing 的资深编辑。
• A fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, she writes much of the journal's recurring statistical commentary herself, on birth trends, induction and cesarean rates, staffing minima and rural maternity access.她当选美国护理学院（American Academy of Nursing）会士，该刊多数周期性数据评论也出自她手，主题涉及出生趋势，引产与剖宫产率，人力配置底线与农村地区产科服务。
• Her editorial line is stated without hedging, every article, practice piece or research report, must rest on the literature and must be usable in current care.她的编辑取向说得毫不含糊，无论实践文章还是研究报告，都须立基于文献，并且能在当下的照护中直接用得上。
• She widened the contents to quality improvement work and scholarly reviews and opened two columns on hot topics in maternity and pediatric nursing.她把内容面扩展到质量改进研究与学理性综述，并就产科与儿科护理的热点话题新辟两个栏目。
• Annie Rohan, PhD, RN, FAANP, FAAN, a neonatal nurse practitioner, joined the editorial office as associate editor in 2016.新生儿执业护士 Annie Rohan（PhD，RN，FAANP，FAAN）于 2016 年进入编辑部出任副主编。
• Rohan came up through the journal's own pipeline, recruited as a reviewer around 2002 and later honored for a three-part practice series on hypoxia in the term newborn.Rohan 的履历正是该刊自我培养的样本，约 2002 年被邀入审稿人之列，后凭足月儿缺氧诊治的三部分实践系列获奖。
• An editorial firewall applies when the editor-in-chief is also an author, with an associate editor handling review and the decision and the article stating that the editor took no part in either step.主编本人投稿时设有回避机制，审稿与决议交由副主编主持，文章会同时注明主编未参与这两步。
• Submissions move through the Editorial Manager system set up for the journal, and each column prints the editor's contact address so that topic suggestions reach the office without an intermediary.来稿经该刊专设的 Editorial Manager 系统流转，每个栏目都印有主编联系邮箱，选题建议可不经中间环节直达编辑部。
• Columnists are practicing nurses and advanced practice clinicians rather than professional writers, and the editors recruit reviewers from unit staff before inviting them to draft.撰写栏目的是执业护士与高级执业人员，而非专职作者，编辑部先从临床一线招募审稿人，再约其执笔。
• The MCN Editorial Fellowship, opened in 2020, trains early career scholars in publishing, editing and peer review, reaching a sixth cohort and more than 50 participants by 2025.2020 年设立的 MCN 编辑研究员项目带早期职业学者熟悉出版，编辑与同行评议流程，到 2025 年已办至第六期，累计逾 50 人。
• Nearly every author affiliation recorded from 2024 to 2026 sat in the United States, with smaller groups in Canada, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Hong Kong.2024 至 2026 年登记的作者单位几乎全在美国，加拿大，意大利，沙特阿拉伯，泰国与香港等地只有零星署名。