The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing is the official journal of the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, and it comes out six times a year.《心血管护理杂志》是预防心血管护理学会的会刊，一年出六期。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3, and the journal ranks 125th of 237 in cardiac and cardiovascular systems and 62nd of 194 in nursing.2025 年影响因子 2.3，在心血管系统类目 237 种刊里排第 125，在护理类目 194 种刊里排第 62。

The recent series runs from 2.083 in 2021 through 2.468 in 2022 to 1.7 in 2023, then 2.6 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025.近年序列从 2021 年的 2.083 起，2022 年 2.468，2023 年 1.7，2024 年 2.6，2025 年回到 2.3。

The journal publishes cardiovascular nursing research and the evidence that guides care at the bedside.刊物发表心血管护理研究，也发表支持床边护理决策的证据。

Every research paper goes through double-blind review, and the title page is held back from the referees.每篇研究稿都走双盲评审，题名页不对审稿人开放。

Scope

• The purpose statement asks for outstanding cardiovascular research with clinical relevance, together with state-of-the-art systematic reviews and meta-analyses.宗旨声明要的是有临床相关性的高水平心血管研究，另加最新的系统综述与荟萃分析。

• Papers are expected to address physiological, psychological, social and behavioral responses to cardiovascular illness, and to cover prevention and management.稿件要处理心血管疾病带来的生理，心理，社会与行为反应，也要覆盖预防与管理。

• That remit extends to individuals, to families and to communities, which the guide lists as the three levels authors should keep in view.这个范围延伸到个人，家庭与社区，须知把这三层列为作者应当照看的口径。

• Full-length reports may be quantitative, qualitative or mixed-methods studies, and all three designs are accepted on equal terms.全文类稿件可以是定量研究，定性研究或混合方法研究，三种设计平等受理。

• Systematic reviews, integrative reviews and meta-analyses form a second full-length track, and the guide asks for state-of-the-art work in each.系统综述，整合性综述与荟萃分析构成第二条全文轨，须知要求每一类都做到当下最好。

• Instrument development and psychometric evaluation sit in the same full-length group, which puts measurement work beside clinical trials.工具研制与心理测量学评价也在全文组里，测量类工作与临床试验因此并列。

• Clinical articles that describe care form the last of the full-length types.描述照护实践的临床类文章是全文类型的最后一类。

• Pilot studies go to the brief-report track, and so do negative findings.预试验进简报轨，阴性结果同样进简报轨。

• Reports of study designs from trials still running are also brief reports, and instrument validation studies fall there as well.仍在进行的试验所报告的设计也按简报处理，工具效度验证研究同样归入这一轨。

• Quality improvement projects are not published, and the guide states that exclusion without qualification.质量改进项目不予发表，须知把这条例外写得没有余地。

• A full-length paper runs to 5,500 words of text, with an abstract of no more than 250 words.全文稿正文限 5500 词，摘要不超过 250 词。

• A brief report is set at 3,000 words with a 150-word abstract, one table and one figure.简报定在 3000 词，摘要 150 词，一表一图。

• Research abstracts carry the headings Background, Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions, while non-research abstracts use Background, Purpose, Conclusions and Clinical implications.研究类摘要按背景，目的，方法，结果，结论五段排，非研究类摘要用背景，宗旨，结论，临床意义四段。

• A short What's New box of two or three bullets goes on a separate page after the references, and abbreviations are barred from it.一段两三行的新意提示放在参考文献之后的单独一页，里面不许用缩写。

• Authors supply three to five MeSH keywords, and references follow the AMA Manual of Style in its 11th edition.作者要给三到五个 MeSH 关键词，参考文献照 AMA 手册第 11 版排。

History

• Volume 1, number 1 is dated November 1986, and Aspen Publishers brought it out in Frederick, Maryland.第 1 卷第 1 期标的是 1986 年 11 月，由 Aspen Publishers 在马里兰州弗雷德里克出版。

• Counting from that first volume, the November December 2026 issue is volume 41, number 6.从那一卷往下数，2026 年 11 月与 12 月合刊是第 41 卷第 6 期。

• The volume number therefore equals the year minus 1985, and the arithmetic holds through the whole run.卷号因此等于年份减 1985，整条序列都合得上。

• MEDLINE picked the journal up with volume 1, number 1 and has carried it without a break since.MEDLINE 从第 1 卷第 1 期就收，此后没有断过。

• International Nursing Index covered it from that same first issue to volume 14, number 3 in April 2000, when that index closed.《国际护理索引》从同一期收起，一直跟到 2000 年 4 月的第 14 卷第 3 期，随后该索引停刊。

• Index Medicus also lists the title, which places the journal in the older paper index as well as in the electronic ones.《医学索引》也列了这个刊名，纸本索引与电子索引里都有它。

• Lippincott Williams & Wilkins took over publication in 2003, and the imprint moved to Hagerstown, Maryland at that point.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 于 2003 年接手出版，出版地随之移到马里兰州黑格斯敦。

• The journal is indexed in both Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Sciences Citation Index, which is unusual for a nursing title.该刊同时进《科学引文索引》扩展版与《社会科学引文索引》，这在护理类刊物里不多见。

• Its 2025 JCI is 0.91 and its percentile 68.3, the latter figure matching the rank inside the nursing category.2025 年 JCI 为 0.91，百分位 68.3，后一项与护理类目里的位次相符。

• Total citations are 2,827 with a cited half-life of 7.9 years, and the annual output runs about 93 articles.总被引 2827 次，引用半衰期 7.9 年，年发文量约 93 篇。

• Open access makes up 11.55 percent of the 2025 output, so the journal remains mostly a subscription title.2025 年的开放获取占 11.55%，刊物整体仍以订阅为主。

• The Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association adopted the journal as its official publication, and members receive it with their dues.预防心血管护理学会把这本刊定为自己的正式出版物，会员交会费即随附赠阅。

• The association's own page describes the journal as the leading professional journal for cardiovascular nurses and places it among the top ten nursing journals.学会自己的页面上说这本刊是心血管护理领域的领头刊物，并把它列进护理类前十。

• Six issues a year have been the rhythm for the recent volumes, and the current one closes with a combined November December number.近几卷都是每年六期，当前一卷以 11 月与 12 月的合刊收尾。

Editors

• Debra K. Moser and Victoria Vaughan Dickson share the editor-in-chief role, and both hold the FAAN designation.主编由 Debra K. Moser 与 Victoria Vaughan Dickson 共同担任，两位都持有 FAAN 称号。

• Moser also carries FAHA, and Dickson adds FHFSA, which marks a heart failure specialty within the same nursing field.Moser 另有 FAHA 称号，Dickson 多一个 FHFSA，后者标的是同一护理领域里的心力衰竭专长。

• Double-blind review means the office strips the title page before a manuscript reaches a referee, and the author list stays hidden until a decision is made.双盲评审的做法是编辑部在稿子送到审稿人之前抽掉题名页，作者名单要到决定作出后才揭开。

• Jeanine Vezie runs the Editorial Manager desk, and the guide gives that office as the contact for submission questions.Editorial Manager 那边由 Jeanine Vezie 负责，须知把这个岗位列为投稿事务的联系人。

• New manuscripts and revisions both go through jcn.edmgr.com, and the system generates the review file.新稿与修改稿都走 jcn.edmgr.com，评审文件由系统生成。

• Four standing columns carry the practice side, namely Progress in Prevention, By the Bedside, Pharmacology and Outcomes Research.常设栏目担起实践一侧，分别是预防进展，床边实践，药理学与结局研究。

• A PCNA News department appears in the issue contents alongside the research papers.目录里另有一栏 PCNA 动态，与研究报告并列。

• The guide warns that more than 90 percent of submissions are returned for not following its requirements, and it puts that figure in the opening section.须知提醒超过九成的投稿因不合要求被退回，这个数字写在开头一节里。

• The author guide itself is hosted by the publisher at edmgr.ovid.com under the journal's short name, and that copy is the one the office enforces.作者须知由出版方挂在 edmgr.ovid.com 上，路径用刊物的简称，编辑部执行的就是这一份。

• Members pay 85 dollars a year in association dues against a standard subscription of 152 dollars, and the journal is the main item in that difference.会员年费 85 美元，标准订阅价 152 美元，刊物是这一差价里的主要一项。

• The publisher's journal page sits at journals.lww.com/jcnjournal, and the cover image is served from the same path.出版方的刊物页面在 journals.lww.com/jcnjournal，封面图也从同一路径取。