Probe into research status quo of bibliometrics in nursing field based on citation chronological map
Abstract：Objective:To explore the important researchers of bibliometrics in the nursing field and the main contents of current research.Methods:Web of Science and Scopus were taken as the retrieval platform,and the bibliometrics literature in the nursing field as the research objects,the Bibliometric analysis was carried out by means of citation analysis software HistCite and information visualization software Citespace Ⅲ.Results:The important researchers in this field including American scholar Oermann Marilyn H,Broome Marion E,British scholar Watson Roger and Australian scholar Smith Derek R.In the main research content,nursing research and education were the hotspots.Journal and publications were the main research objects,citation analysis was the hot research methods,and the impact factors and H-index were the hot measure indicators for bibliometrics in the field.Conclusions:Bibliometrics research started late in the nursing field.Although the research content in recent years has become increasingly rich,the literature output number was not large,still need to increase the research efforts in this field.
Keywords：nursing sciencebibliometricscitation chronological mapresearch hotspotsnursing fieldresearchers
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：4( 2333-2336 )