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Another Successful Year for Clinical Nursing Research

This year, we launched our expansion to six issues per year! We have been able to accomplish this due to the increased number of strong manuscript submissions we have been receiving since we obtained an impact factor. We have also been successful at maintaining an impact factor over the last 3 years. We are currently ranked 62/106 in nursing with an impact factor of 0.870. This is due in part to the exceptional job our reviewers have done. We have also gone from receiving 50 manuscripts a year 6 years ago to over 130 a year. Due to this increased number of manuscripts, we have also had to make some changes in what type of manuscripts we are able to accept. Clinical Nursing Research’s (CNR) acceptance rate is now below 25%. Examples of manuscripts with less of a chance of being accepted for publication include under-powered studies, those not following the submission guidelines, international manuscripts that have not had a strong English edit, and manuscripts that do not focus on clinical research. Moving forward for next year, I would like to expand our panel of reviewers to enable us to decrease our review time for first decision from the current mean of 46 days to 30 days. This year, we started expediting decisions on submissions that were found not to be an appropriate fit or did not follow the submission guidelines. This allows authors to submit their manuscripts to a more appropriate journal in a more timely fashion. This past year, we have had manuscript submissions from 31 countries. We have published manuscripts from the following countries: Canada, China, Finland, Jordon, Korea, Philippines, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States this past year. I hope to see this international representation again this year.