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Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ6295725 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing is a peer-reviewed nursing journal covering pediatric and oncology nursing. The editor-in-chief is Kristin Stegenga (Children's Mercy Hospital). It was established in 1985 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses (APHON). The journal changed its name from Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing (JOPON) to Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nursing (JOPHON) on January 1, 2022.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2020 impact factor is 1.636.

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“Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Journal, Pediatric and Oncology can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 2022, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Journal, Pediatric and Oncology.
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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.