The Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing (OBJN) is an online scientific journal created in 2002, whose mission is to contribute to scientific advancement of excellence, defending editorial freedom and the global integration of knowledge among institutions, researchers, and professionals in the areas of Nursing, health, and related sciences.

Its vision is to be a leading electronic journal in Nursing in Latin America and other countries, based on its recognition by the best international indexing databases and its defense of excellence and ethical precepts.

Manuscripts can be submitted in English, Portuguese, and Spanish for the sections described in ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT TYPES. They must be exclusively for OBJN. Manuscripts published in other journals or that have been submitted and are under evaluation in another journal simultaneously with submission to OBJN are not accepted, except in cases of publications on preprint servers, as well as texts, data, codes, and other materials deposited in scientifically recognized repositories.

All published articles are produced in English, in addition to the article's original language (Portuguese or Spanish), in HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Portable Document Format (PDF), and Electronic Publication (EPUB) formats. Articles submitted in English will only be available in this language.

OBJN follows the continuous publication system (rolling pass) and is open access, of the Gold Open Access type, thus having its articles made available in full and free of charge. It uses the main technologies for information retrieval, indexing, and assigns the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all publications, following best practices in scientific publishing.

The licensing system adopted by OBJN is the Creative Commons (CC-BY) – Attribution 4.0 International license, meaning that upon publication of the article, its content may be copied, distributed, edited, remixed, and used for new creations, including for commercial purposes, provided that due credit is given to the original author(s) and publication credit is given to OBJN. This license aims to maximize the dissemination and use of licensed materials.

To control the quality of submitted manuscripts, OBJN adopts successive and eliminatory evaluation checklists at three levels: (a) pre-analysis (metadata, relevance assessment, and normalization); (b) method checklist (Equator network guides) and; (c) peer review (double-blind peer review), preserving the anonymity of authors and reviewers.

In articles published in OBJN, the names of the editors responsible for the manuscript evaluation and production process are identified.

Upon submission, authors must report any type of conflict of interest in the evaluation of their manuscript.

The ideas expressed in the manuscripts published in OBJN are the sole responsibility of the authors and co-authors, not involving the opinion of the editorial team.

Manuscripts of high quality that demonstrate scientific advancement of excellence, with high methodological rigor, implications for clinical practice, teaching and/or public policy development, recommendation for future research, and global interest/relevance will be accepted for publication in OBJN.