Abstract
BackgroundA single journal study of the journal Clinical Simulation in Nursing was performed after its tenth anniversary. Single journal studies aim to analyze journal bibliometric indicators to assess journal characteristics and history, as well as to support possible authors in deciding if the journal might be appropriate to publish their papers. MethodsThe corpus was harvested from the Scopus bibliographical database (Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), using the search string Clinical Simulation in Nursing in the Source title field for the period 2006 till 2016 (inclusive). The bibliometric analysis was performed with Scopus built-in services and MS Excel 2007 (Microsoft, Rochester, NY). The thematic, chronological, cooperation, and hot topic analysis was performed on scientific landscapes induced by VOSviewer software version 1.6.5 (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands). Sleeping Beauties were identified by our own software developed at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia. ResultsThe volume of the literature production is increasing as are the yearly average number of pages, authors, references, interorganizational cooperation, and Impact Factor. The most productive country is the United States and also all top ten productive organizations are located there. The thematic analysis revealed six themes namely simulated clinical experience in health care, education, interprofessional simulation in teams, research in human patient simulation, simulation centers, and debriefing. Additionally, one Sleeping Beauty was identified. The hot topics seem to be experiential learning, self-efficacy, interprofessional education, and debriefing. ConclusionsThe research literature production is increasing, together with publication quality indicators, like yearly average number of pages, authors, and organizations. The thematic analysis showed that the Journal themes conform to the Aims and Scope of the Journal; however; some research gaps exist. Chronologically, the publication's content went from practice, through theory development to the use of the theory in simulation design.
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