JKAN provides a forum for original research and scholarship on nursing practice, health care delivery, management, workforce, policy, and research methods relevant to nursing, midwifery, and other health-related professions around the world. This journal aims to promote the development and dissemination of knowledge in all spheres of nursing and support evidence-based nursing policies. JKAN welcomes studies that seek to evaluate and understand complex healthcare interventions and health policies and that employ rigorous designs and methods appropriate for the research question related to the nursing discipline. This journal covers all the areas of nursing science. The journal also seeks to improve the quality of its research by publishing methodological papers introducing or elaborating on analytical techniques, measures, and research methods.

JKAN has published original peer-reviewed articles of interest to researchers since 1970, making it the longest-standing repository of nursing scholarships in Korea. The types of publications are research papers that report research findings, reviews, discussion papers, and editorials that are of interest to the international readership of practitioners, educators, administrators, and researchers in all areas of nursing, as well as letters to the Editor. The International Organization for Standardization’s abbreviated title is J Korean Acad Nurs.

The journal is published four times a year (Feb. 28, May 31, Aug. 31, and Nov. 30). The journal is open access, and articles are freely available online to read, download, and share immediately upon publication. JKAN endorses the Equator Network (http://www.equator-network. org), an international initiative that seeks to improve the reliability and value of research literature in healthcare by promoting the transparent and accurate reporting of studies. We ask our authors to use appropriate reporting guidelines to ensure their excellence in scientific reporting.