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Current Issue: March/April 2015 - Volume 64 - Issue 2

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Nursing Research has a long and distinguished record in the history of nursing science. Since its launch in
1952, Nursing Research has been a cooperative venture of scientists, professional organizations, publisher,
editorial staff, and readers to circulate scientific papers in nursing to improve care, alleviate suffering, and
advance well-being. Today, Nursing Research continues as a preeminent journal in the field, and is the
official journal of the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) and the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN).
Nursing Research publishes regular papers and brief reports in the following areas:
Empirical Findings about
Health and illness experiences of individuals, families, and communities
Prevention and therapeutic self-care, nursing, and health team interventions
Nursing systems, quality of care, and patient outcomes
Health and illness over time, across the lifespan
Health and illness in social and physical context
Nursing education, when focused on issues related to research curriculum, research instruction,
or investigator development at any career development stage
Biology Reviews
Current advances in basic biological sciences related to emerging areas of nursing science
Translational research related to emerging areas of nursing science
See the Call for Papers (below): Biology Reviews for Nursing Research
Methods
Development and application of new methodologies for nursing research
Measurement, statistics, informatics and analytics, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches
May include secondary analysis of previously reported data to illustrate leading edge methods.

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following acceptance of selected manuscripts. Click on the Open Manuscript Review button to access the
documents, now conveniently organized by topics including clinical/research teaching focus, methodology,
scientific integrity, and illustration of the review/revision process.
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Nursing Research is a peer-reviewed journal with two review panels. All papers submitted for peer review
are assessed by at least two members of the scientific review panel. Papers based on application of
advanced quantitative methods are also reviewed by a member of the statistical review panel, whose
expertise covers measurement, statistics, and analytics/data mining. Click the For Authors and Reviewers
tab for a list of reviewers, and for review guidelines.
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are now freely available on-line without a subscription. Look for this material on the For Authors and
Reviewers tab!
Two recent special issues of Nursing Research are freely available on the website.
Scroll down to find the 2011 Supplement Health Trajectory Research: Advancing Person-centered Nursing
Science and read about how longitudinal studies and models can be used to advance nursing science.
Find the focus issue on Statistics in the Free Content area. Papers in this issue illustrate application of
recent statistical advances in nursing research, including item response theory, newer structural equation
models for assessing measurement equivalence, and issues arising from causal analysis and missing data.
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Calls for Papers

-- Biology Reviews for Nursing Research
Nursing Research invites integrative reviews of current advances in basic biological sciences and translational research
relevant to emerging areas of nursing science. Areas of interest include but are not limited to topics in: genetics, genomics,
and epigenetics; systems biology/integrative physiology; neuroscience and imaging; computational biology; microbiology
and the human microbiome; nanoscience; physiology in situ and mobile health devices. Biology Reviews for Nursing
Research will provide up-to-date information about advances in these thematic areas to the global community of nurse
scientists, with the aim of infusing new biological and omics knowledge into nursing research.
Reviews should summarize and critically evaluate the current state of knowledge. Implications for nursing research in
relevant areas should be addressed, especially with respect to the priority research addressing prevention and treatment of
disease and disability; symptoms and symptom management of acute and chronic illnesses; interventions for
compassionate end-of-life and palliative care; infectious disease and global health; and integration of biological and
behavioral perspectives on health over the lifespan across priority areas. In the letter to the editor uploaded with
submissions, please mention that the paper should be considered for the biology review series.
Papers accepted for Biology Reviews will be published as features in regular issues and marked with a banner for the
"Biology Review Series".
For additional information and editorial commentary related to the Biology Review Series, click here:

-- Point-of-Care Research Series

Nursing Research invites papers reporting findings from original point-of-care research studies. Topics include but are not
limited to use of devices and information technology at the point-of-care, patient safety issues, m-health, telehealth,
system interoperability, design and evaluation of smart environments across the health-illness continuum, learning health
systems; communication and decision making in emerging technology-supported point-of-care settings; quality and
ethical issues. Papers may be enhanced to include video or interactive graphs using supplemental digital content.
Submissions may be regular full-length papers or research briefs. In the letter to the editor uploaded with submissions,
please mention that the paper should be considered for the point-of-care research series.
There is no deadline for submission; accepted papers will be published in regular issues and marked with a banner for the
Point-of-Care Research series.
For additional information and editorial commentary related to the Point-of-Care Research Series, click here:

-- Health Equity Research Series

Nursing Research invites papers reporting findings of original research across the scope of health equity. Topics include but

are not limited to (a) research implications of definitions, concepts, and measurement of health equity; (b) cross-cultural
and longitudinal validity of health equity indicators; or (c) using toolkits and other technical resources to support
community capacity building, and models for describing, guiding and testing progress towards health equity.
Topics related to interventions are especially welcome, such as (a) how to effectively build community capacity to
implement, evaluate and sustain programs and policies to promote health equity; (b) how to reduce persistent, populationspecific health disparities using a health equity framework; (c) designing and testing culturally-tailored interventions for
high-risk communities; (d) how to address social determinants of health in an intervention framework; and (e) using
culturally appropriate evaluation strategies for targeted interventions to establish best practices and support evidencebased approaches to reduce health disparities and achieve health equity.
Understanding determinants of health disparities and achieving health equity among vulnerable, high-risk, underserved
populations is central to the call for papers. Individual, family, community, national or global perspectives in
biopsychosocial-systems (health services, political, and economic) frameworks may be used. Research on comparative
health and social policy including economic approaches is relevant to the call. Findings from studies focused on research
capacity building to facilitate integration of health equity into programs of research for beginning and seasoned
investigators are encouraged, as are papers reporting new methods for studying health equity.
Papers may be prepared as original articles or brief reports. Accepted papers will be marked with a banner for the "Health
Equity Research Series". The call is on-going; there is no deadline for submission.
For editorial commentary on health equity please read here; freely available via permanent web link.
---Queries are encouraged and should be sent to Dr. Susan Henly, Editor (henly003@umn.edu).
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