Literature analysis and comparison on basic information of scientific papers subject in Chinese journals of nursing nearly six years

Abstract

Objective To know the nursing scientific research status in recent years, and to reveal the differences between Chinese nursing scientific researches and foreign nursing scientific researches, in order to promote the rapid development of nursing cause in China. Methods Five Chinese journals of nursing and four foreign nursing journals were analyzed covered China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), PubMed and Google data ranged from 2008 to 2013. By adopting bibliometrics method, regional distribution, the number of people participation, the cooperation between units, the source of financial funding, research content and nature of Chinese nursing research papers were analyzed, and also compared to research content and nature of foreign nursing journals. Results The amounts of published papers were 1 527 pieces. The geographical distribution of research papers were all spread over 28 provinces, autonomous regions sand municipalities directly under the central government, most of which was Guangdong province [12.64% (193/1 527) ]; The majority of research papers were completed by single unit and more than five people, which about [68.4%(1 045/1 527) ], [38.6%(589/1 527) ], respectively; Provincial level of research papers were more than national level [81.4%(1 243/1 527) vs. 18.6%(284/1 527) ]; The papers focused on the clinical nursing research [37.8%(577/1 527) ] and clinical basic nursing research [34.6%(529/1 527) ]. Almost researches were descriptive research ,while 40.7%(622/1527) of which were clinical analysis. Foreign nursing scientific researches paid more attention to psychological research and nursing profession which were related to humanities and investigation was major method used; Compared with the foreign nursing papers at the same time, the number of Chinese nursing research papers increased rapidly (P < 0.05); Papers were completed more than five units rapidly increased compared with the pre-upgrade, as well as the national subjects, the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Conclusions The number of nursing research programs tended to increase year by year and the enthusiasm of nurses participating in scientific research was higher than before. Different units needed to further strengthen cooperation in scientific research. The research content and direction were diversity, which had not yet formed central tendency. The research method was still limited to descriptive studies, and the creativity of the research methods was needed, especially laboratory research. Key words: Nursing research; Journal article; Bibliometrics