Global Qualitative Nursing Research (GQNR) is a ground breaking, international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal focusing on qualitative research in fields relevant to nursing world-wide. The journal specializes in topics related to nursing practice, responses to health, illness, and disability, health promotion, healthcare delivery, and global issues that affect nursing and healthcare. GQNR also welcomes qualitative studies pertinent to nursing that advance knowledge of diversity and systemic biases (e.g., racism), including the intersection of multiple oppressions and social identities, that shape experiences of health and illness, nursing and healthcare, and their implications for health equity. The journal provides a forum for sharing qualitative research from around the world that has international relevance for nursing.

GQNR will publish research articles using qualitative methods and qualitatively-driven mixed-method designs as well as meta-syntheses and articles focused on methodological development. Special sections include Ethics, Methodological Development, Advancing Theory/Metasynthesis, Establishing Evidence, and Application to Practice.

The article processing charge (APC) for this journal is currently $2100 USD. Students are eligible for a special rate of 75% off. The APC is payable upon acceptance.

Authors are able to publish translated versions of their article alongside the English version. Please see submission guidelines section 6 for more details.

Our goal is to publish sound science. This means we look for research that adheres to ethical standards, uses appropriate and rigorous methodologies that are transparent and meaningfully coherent to ensure clear, credible, and trustworthy results. We care more about the quality and significance of the contribution an article makes than we do the size of that contribution. Global Qualitative Nursing Research evaluates manuscripts based on how the research was conducted and reported.