Aim and Scope
Aims

• IJONE provides an international forum for publication of original quality manuscripts of research findings,reviews and analysis of interest to readership of nurses,readers and researchers in all areas of nursing.
• Aims to support evidence informed policy and practise by publishing research, systemic and other scholarly reviews,critical disscussion and commentary of highest standard.
• Aims to provide the readers with most uptodate nursing knowledge and skills and enhance nursing professionalism, knowledge and quality

Scope

• Nursing Education
• Clinical Nursing
• Nursing Ethics
• Public Health Nursing
• Nursing Research
• Nursing Assessment
• Advance Practise Nursing
• Nursing Process and Diagnosis
• Nursing Managament
• Infection Control
• Technology in Nursing

Important Information

1.Manuscript Submission fee - There is no fee for manuscript submission. Manuscript can be submitted any time. Submission is always open
Manuscript Processing Charges- We charge for manuscript processing from the authors. Authors must pay charges only if the article is accepted for publication. The charges are per article. If some author does not want to pay, he can withdraw his article.

The charges are as follows
1. India and SAARC countries- Indian Rupees 4000/- (Four thousand only)
2. Rest of world - US $ 100

Rebate / waiver policy - Editor can give rebate/ wave off charges depending on the author’s status like student, no funding from any source, research from developing countries or research of exceptional status. Please write to Editor giving justification for the rebate. Editor‘s decision is final and binding.

Digital archiving Policy- the issues of the journal are archived into PKP PN (Public Knowledge Project), LOCKSS and CLOCKSS

Review Policy for articles- The journal follows double blind peer review policy for all articles.Each submitted article undergoes review process with atleast two reviewers or editorial board members who are expertise in the field of submitted article. Once the article is received, it is forwarded to our two reviewers after removing names of authors and their affiliations. Authors are also not informed names of reviewers. Reviewers send their comments in due course of time and these comments/ queries are forwarded to authors to make corrections or offer explanations. Once the reviewers are satisfied with corrections in manuscripts or explanations given by authors, authors are conveyed the decision of acceptance of article. If author/s refuses to make corrections as suggested by reviewers, manuscript is rejected for publication.

Plagiarism checking policy- The journal has zero tolerance policy for plagiarism. We regularly use software Dupli checker for detection of plagiarism.Manuscripts that are found to have been plagiarised from the work of other authors will be rejected.

Licensing Policy Articles in Indian Journal of journal Nursing Education are Open Access articles which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work and source is properly cited. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

5. Copyright Policy Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultanousely licensed under the Creative Commons Atrribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowlegement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.