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Journal Ranking Project

Council commissioned a project for the development of a ranking of refereed journals in which Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery researchers publish their work. Click here for the tender brief.

Background

Since August 2006, the Centre for Health Initiatives (CHI) at the University of Wollongong has been working in conjunction with the Council of Deans of Nursing & Midwifery (CDNM) to produce a new method of ranking refereed journals in which Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery researchers publish their work. This project was entitled “Development of a ranking of refereed journals in which Australia & New Zealand nursing and midwifery researchers publish their work”.

Throughout this project, CHI consulted with peak nursing and midwifery bodies, utilising both a Delphi survey process and a focus group design with an ‘expert panel’. The method rests upon the idea that:
i) citation rates and impact factors, while still of importance, should not be the sole indicator of journal quality for disciplines like nursing and midwifery; and
ii) nursing and midwifery researchers should dictate which factors are important when judging journal quality.

This project has resulted in the development of the “Journal Evaluation Tool” (JET). Download the JET here. (PDF 62 KB) or (RTF 551 KB)

The JET has been used to provide a ranking of refereed journals in which nurses and midwives publish. The current JET journal ranked list as of 25 March 2011 is available here.

Please note that some journals did not receive a ranking as part of the exercise, as they were either uncontactable or unresponsive to the call for participation. These journals are included in Band 4, but may still receive a ranking in the future by completing the steps below.

How to gain a ranking

All refereed journals in which nurses and/or midwives publish are eligible to be included in the rankings.

As ISI impact factors are changeable, new rankings and re-rankings will occur on a yearly basis, and will be posted here.

Please contact the Chair at CDNM to receive the JET. Once the JET is completed you may submit this to the Chair to enable the CHI to facilitate scoring and ranking.