The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care is a bimonthly peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 nursing journal and the official journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Association of Nurses in AIDS Care is a national nursing organization in the United States which specializes in the care of individuals infected with HIV. It is based in Akron, Ohio and was founded in 1987....

 published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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. The journal covers a broad spectrum of issues in HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 infection: education, treatment, prevention, research, clinical practice issues, advocacy, policy, and program development.

Article categories

The journal publishes editorials, featured articles, case studies

Case study

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, briefs, commentaries, media reviews, and letters to the editors

Letter to the editor

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.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE

MEDLINE

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, CINAHL

CINAHL

CINAHL is an index of English-language and selected other-language journal articles about nursing, allied health, biomedicine and healthcare....

, Science Citation Index Expanded

Science Citation Index

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, Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Health and Safety Science Abstracts, International Nursing Index, Pollution Abstracts, PsycLIT

PsycLit

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, PsychINFO, Psychological Abstracts

Psychological Abstracts

Psychological Abstracts was an abstract and index periodical and the print counterpart of the PsycINFO database. It was published by the American Psychological Association and was produced for 80 years, ceasing publication at the end of 2006...

, and Virology and AIDS Abstracts. According to the 2009 Journal Citation Reports

Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal has an impact factor

Impact factor

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 of 0.957, ranking it 31 out of 72 in the Nursing category.

History

The inaugural issue was published in August 1989 by Medical World Business Press (Old Bridge, New Jersey). In 1991, NurseCom became the publisher and the journal was expanded to four issues per year. The founding editor was Jeanne Kalinoski, who served in that position from 1988 to 1996. She later recounted the she "had to face the awful fact that we had empty pockets, no publisher, no advertisers, and no manuscripts, let alone a system for peer review of those proposed articles.” Kalinoski persevered and the journal "reported a doubling of ad pages and revenue every year for its first 8 years."

Richard Sowell, who had served as assistant editor under Kalinoski, was the journal's second editor and served in that position for 11 years (1996–2007). He guided the journal through a period of growth in which it "became a journal of choice for a growing cohort of authors from a variety of disciplines.” During Sowell’s tenure as editor, the journal expanded to 6 issues per year, increased the number of pages published per issue, and developed strong funding lines. NurseCom remained the publisher until 1997, Sage Publications

SAGE Publications

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was the publisher from 1997–2005, and Elsevier become the publisher in 2005.

Lucy Bradley-Springer succeeded Sowell in June 2007.

External links

• Association of Nurses in AIDS Care