Aims & Scope

INDOGENIUS Journal is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing nursing science, healthcare practice, and interdisciplinary health sciences. The journal publishes original research articles, literature reviews, and other scholarly contributions that improve healthcare interventions, patient outcomes, public health, healthcare quality, and professional development across clinical, community, laboratory, and educational settings.

The journal emphasizes scientifically rigorous research and evidence-based practice that integrate biological, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of health. It encourages methodological diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and innovative approaches to addressing contemporary challenges in nursing and healthcare.

The scope of INDOGENIUS Journal encompasses the following areas:

1. Nursing Sciences

  • Holistic and Integrative Nursing: Holistic care, complementary nursing interventions, spiritual care, and person-centered nursing.

  • Medical-Surgical Nursing: Nursing interventions and outcomes in acute, chronic, critical, and rehabilitative care.

  • Community and Family Health Nursing: Health promotion, disease prevention, home-based nursing, family care, and community empowerment.

  • Maternal, Pediatric, and Women's Health Nursing: Reproductive health, maternal and child nursing, adolescent health, and women's healthcare.

  • Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing: Psychosocial interventions, mental health promotion, psychiatric care, and psychological well-being.

  • Gerontological and Palliative Nursing: Healthy aging, long-term care, symptom management, and end-of-life nursing.

  • Nursing Education and Professional Development: Nursing education, clinical competencies, simulation-based learning, and professional development.

  • Nursing Management and Patient Safety: Nursing leadership, healthcare quality, workforce management, and patient safety.

  • Digital Health and Nursing Innovation: Telenursing, artificial intelligence, digital nursing interventions, and healthcare technologies.

  • Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: Nursing intervention research, evidence synthesis, implementation science, and knowledge translation.

2. Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy: Pharmaceutical care, medication therapy management, medication safety, and rational drug use.

  • Pharmacology and Toxicology: Drug mechanisms, therapeutic effects, adverse drug reactions, and toxicological studies.

  • Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery: Drug formulation, pharmaceutical technology, drug delivery systems, and dosage-form development.

  • Pharmacognosy and Natural Products: Medicinal plants, natural compounds, herbal medicines, and the scientific evaluation of traditional medicines.

  • Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Services: Community pharmacy, patient counseling, medication adherence, and pharmaceutical service quality.

  • Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology: Drug utilization, cost-effectiveness, medication-use patterns, and population-level drug safety.

  • Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Quality Control: Pharmaceutical product quality, microbiological testing, and quality assurance.

  • Clinical Pharmacy Research and Drug Safety: Clinical outcomes, pharmacovigilance, medication errors, and evidence-based pharmacotherapy.

3. Nutrition and Nutritional Sciences

  • Clinical and Therapeutic Nutrition: Medical nutrition therapy, nutritional assessment, and nutritional management of acute and chronic diseases.

  • Community and Public Health Nutrition: Community nutrition programs, nutrition education, food security, and nutrition-related disease prevention.

  • Maternal, Infant, and Child Nutrition: Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation, infant feeding, complementary feeding, and child growth and development.

  • Adolescent and Adult Nutrition: Dietary patterns, nutritional status, lifestyle-related conditions, and healthy eating behaviors.

  • Geriatric Nutrition: Nutritional needs of older adults, malnutrition prevention, and nutrition support in long-term care.

  • Nutritional Epidemiology: Dietary intake assessment, nutrition-related risk factors, and population-based nutritional research.

  • Food Science and Food Safety: Food quality, food hygiene, food safety, functional foods, and nutritional composition.

  • Nutrition Education and Counseling: Dietary counseling, behavioral interventions, nutrition literacy, and patient-centered nutrition services.

  • Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism: Nutrient metabolism, micronutrient deficiencies, and the relationship between nutrition and health outcomes.

4. Midwifery and Reproductive Health

  • Maternal and Antenatal Care: Prenatal assessment, pregnancy monitoring, maternal health promotion, and prevention of pregnancy-related complications.

  • Intrapartum and Postpartum Care: Labor management, childbirth support, postpartum recovery, and maternal health outcomes.

  • Neonatal and Newborn Care: Newborn assessment, neonatal health promotion, breastfeeding support, and prevention of neonatal complications.

  • Reproductive and Sexual Health: Reproductive health education, family planning, contraception, and reproductive health services.

  • Women's Health Across the Lifespan: Menstrual health, menopause, gynecological health, and women's health promotion.

  • High-Risk Pregnancy and Maternal Complications: Evidence-based approaches to managing high-risk pregnancies and improving maternal and perinatal outcomes.

  • Community Midwifery: Community-based maternal care, maternal health education, birth preparedness, and referral systems.

  • Midwifery Education and Professional Practice: Clinical skills, simulation-based education, professional competencies, and quality improvement in midwifery.

  • Maternal and Child Health Policy: Maternal health services, respectful maternity care, maternal mortality prevention, and health system improvement.

5. Medical Laboratory Science and Health Laboratory Technology

  • Clinical Laboratory Science: Laboratory investigations supporting the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of diseases.

  • Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry: Biochemical markers, metabolic disorders, laboratory-based disease assessment, and clinical biomarker research.

  • Hematology and Coagulation: Blood disorders, hematological parameters, coagulation testing, and laboratory evaluation of hematological diseases.

  • Clinical Microbiology and Parasitology: Bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases, pathogen identification, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

  • Immunology and Serology: Immune responses, immunological disorders, serological diagnostics, and laboratory-based immune assessment.

  • Molecular Diagnostics and Biotechnology: Molecular testing, genetic and infectious disease diagnostics, and laboratory-based biotechnology applications.

  • Histotechnology and Cytopathology: Tissue processing, histological examination, cytological analysis, and laboratory techniques supporting disease diagnosis.

  • Laboratory Quality Assurance and Biosafety: Quality control, method validation, laboratory accreditation, biosafety, and risk management.

  • Diagnostic Innovation and Laboratory Management: Development and evaluation of diagnostic methods, laboratory information systems, and laboratory service efficiency.

  • Transfusion Science and Blood Banking: Blood component testing, compatibility testing, transfusion safety, and blood bank quality management.

6. Interdisciplinary and Integrated Health Sciences

INDOGENIUS Journal also welcomes interdisciplinary studies that integrate nursing, pharmacy, nutrition, midwifery, medical laboratory science, and other relevant health disciplines.

Topics may include:

  • Patient-centered and multidisciplinary healthcare.

  • Integrated management of chronic and infectious diseases.

  • Medication safety and nutritional support in clinical care.

  • Maternal, neonatal, and child health interventions.

  • Community-based health promotion and disease prevention.

  • Healthcare quality improvement and patient safety.

  • Digital health, health informatics, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

  • Evidence-based healthcare interventions and implementation science.

  • Health policy, health service management, and healthcare innovation.

  • Public health emergencies, epidemiology, and population health.

INDOGENIUS Journal welcomes quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods, experimental, observational, methodological, and evidence-synthesis studies, as well as theoretical and conceptual contributions relevant to nursing science.

Manuscripts must demonstrate scientific rigor, ethical compliance, originality, and clear implications for nursing practice, education, management, or policy. Studies without a substantive contribution to nursing knowledge or professional nursing practice are considered outside the journal's scope.

Through its collaboration with the Indonesian Holistic Nurses Association (HPHI), West Java Regional Chapter, INDOGENIUS Journal also promotes the development and dissemination of evidence-based holistic nursing research while maintaining a broad and inclusive focus on general nursing science.