Analysis of zero cited papers on nursing management published in nursing core journals in China
Abstract：Objective:To know about the zero cited situation of nursing management papers in Chinese core jour-nals,find out the existed problems,and so as to provide references for nursing managers to choose scientific re-search subj ects and carry out effective research work,and ther to improve the quality of nursing management. Methods:Combination of computer retrieval and manual retrieval methods were used to analyze the number, theme,fund,research type,author area distribution,citation state of all the zero cited papers on nursing manage-ment from January 2012 to December 2014 which were published in 12 nursing core journals in CNKI and Wan-fang database.Results:From 2012 to 2014,there were 4 137 zero cited papers on nursing management,in which 1 235 zero cited funded papers.Zero cited funded papers had a trend of increasing year by year.Papers from Chi-nese Journal of nursing had the lowest zero cited rate(41.67%).Academy(College)funded papers accounted for the highest zero cited rate(77.62%)in the funded papers.The qualitative research papers(77.50%),experimen-tal research papers(72.31%),papers without the application of statistical methods(75.24%)were in higher proportion in the zero cited papers.The theme of zero cited papers was mainly distributed in the management of nursing human resources,secondly was management of nursing quality;in nursing human resource manage-ment,zero citeded fund papers mainly focused on nursing staff professionalism(25.86%),and non funded pa-pers focused on other themes(75.32%).In the theme of nursing quality management,the zero cited funded pa-pers were mainly based on the quality evaluation index system(35.59%),and the non funded papers were mainly based on the method of quality control(55.70%).Conclusion:The overall cited situation of nursing man-agement papers was poor,and the zero cited rate was higher.Zero cited rate of funded papers(70.98%)was higher than that of the non funded papers(67.21%).The results showed that one should evaluate the academic quality and the reference value of zero cited papers obj ectively.
Keywords：nursing managementcore j ournalszero cited papersanalysis
Publication Date：2017-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：10( 153-162 )