Mezquita Belén, Alfonso-Arias Cristina, Martínez-Jaimez Patricia, Borrego Ángel
Departament de Ciències Bàsiques, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain.
Departament d'Infermeria, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain.
Nurs Open. 2024 Sep;11(9):e70036. doi: 10.1002/nop2.70036.
To describe the use of bibliometrics in nursing and assess their contribution to research and practice.
A content analysis was conducted of topics, data sources and applications of bibliometrics in nursing research articles.
The study universe included 129 bibliometric articles on nursing retrieved from Scopus. A content analysis was performed to identify the purposes and topics of the articles, the sources employed to collect the data, the time frames covered, the amounts of records surveyed, and the features of the nursing literature analysed in bibliometric papers.
Nursing bibliometric research revolves around six key areas: global descriptions of the nursing literature, literature on specific nursing research topics, nursing education, nursing profession, nursing research using a certain framework or method, and nursing literature published in a country or region. Studies rely on three types of sources to retrieve the surveyed literature: bibliographic databases, sets of disciplinary journals and samples of documents. Bibliometrics can be employed to advance nursing research (identification of research gaps, establishment of research agendas, assessment of methodological approaches, etc.) and practice (identification of professional competences, categorisation of professional tasks, recognition of educational improvements, etc.), suggesting new avenues for researchers who aim to conduct further bibliometric research in the field. Further research is needed to assess the coverage of the nursing literature by new bibliographic data sources and to explore unaddressed topics such as gender imbalance in authorship.
描述文献计量学在护理领域的应用，并评估其对研究和实践的贡献。
对护理研究文章中文献计量学的主题、数据来源和应用进行了内容分析。
研究范围包括从Scopus检索到的129篇关于护理的文献计量学文章。进行了内容分析，以确定文章的目的和主题、用于收集数据的来源、涵盖的时间范围、调查的记录数量以及文献计量学论文中分析的护理文献的特征。
护理文献计量学研究围绕六个关键领域展开：护理文献的全球描述、特定护理研究主题的文献、护理教育、护理专业、使用特定框架或方法的护理研究以及在某个国家或地区发表的护理文献。研究依赖三种类型的来源来检索被调查的文献：书目数据库、学科期刊集和文献样本。文献计量学可用于推进护理研究（识别研究差距、制定研究议程、评估方法等）和实践（识别专业能力、对专业任务进行分类、认可教育改进等），为旨在在该领域进行进一步文献计量学研究的研究人员提供新途径。需要进一步研究以评估新书目数据源对护理文献的覆盖范围，并探索未解决的主题，如作者性别不平衡问题。
