Bibliometric analysis on postoperative sleep nursing from 2008 to 2017

Abstract

Objective To systematically analyze the research status and development trend of postoperative sleep nursing from 2008 to 2017 in China. Methods We systematically retrieved literatures on postoperative sleep nursing published in Chinese Biology Medicine disc (CBM) , China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) , WanFang Data and Vip Database from 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2017. The bibliometrics was used to statistical analysis. Results A total of 485 literatures met criteria were included finally. From 2008 to 2017, the number of literatures had a growth trend every year. Literatures were published in 145 journals in China with 8.0% in the nursing core journals. A total of 10.1% of the researches had fund support, 61.6% of literatures had been quoted and 10.2% of them were quoted ≥10 times. Authors were from 28 provinces in China and the cooperative rate was 53.0% with 2.21 for the cooperative level. The research type focused on intervention study, and diseases were main in cancer, orthopedics and mixed surgery patients, and research contents mainly included symptoms of decline, influencing factors and intervention of postoperative sleep quality. Conclusions In China, researches on postoperative sleep nursing have development tendency but with problems such as uneven regional development, insufficient research support, single assessment tool and imperfect study design. The overall quality needs to be improved. Key words: Postoperative period; Sleep; Nursing research; Journal article; Bibliometrics