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. 2021 Sep 28:2021:8758161.
doi: 10.1155/2021/8758161. eCollection 2021.

Bibliometric Analysis on Geriatric Nursing Research in Web of Science (1900-2020)

Arezoo Ghamgosar  1   2 , Maryam Zarghani  1 , Leila Nemati-Anaraki  3
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Bibliometric Analysis on Geriatric Nursing Research in Web of Science (1900-2020)

Arezoo Ghamgosar et al. Biomed Res Int. .

Abstract

Objective: Aging is a growing public health concern for people, organizations, and governments. The current study was undertaken to provide insights into the global research output on geriatric nursing.

Methods: A bibliometric study was implemented using the WoS database for the period from 1900 to 2020. Various tools and measures were used to analyze and visualized.

Results: The search strategy found 4923 papers. The oldest paper was written by Beverly C. Andre in 1953. As team size increases, so does the number of citations. The USA was the active country and the highest number of coauthors. New York University was an active institution. Stig Karlsson was the most active author in Geriatric Nursing with 28 articles from Sweden, followed by Koen Milisen and Sandman, with 26 articles each from Sweden and Belgium. The most frequent words in this field were depression, malnutrition, education, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia. The latest research themes in this field were COVID-19, interprofessional locomotive syndrome, emergency nursing, and public health. The most influential papers were specified. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society was the most active journal.

Conclusions: Geriatric nursing is a rooted field and has received special attention in the last decade. Policymakers, especially in developing countries, should pay attention to geriatric nursing as a specialty of nursing to solve aging issues they would face considering the increasing elderly population.

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The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Number of papers and number of citations of Geriatric Nursing (1990–2020).
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Team size and number of citations of Geriatric Nursing (1990–2020).
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Figure 3
Visualization of international research collaboration with a minimum of 5 papers on Geriatric Nursing (1990–2020). For each of the 49 countries, the total strength of the coauthorship links with other countries will be calculated. The countries with the greatest total link strength will be selected.
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Figure 4
Visualization of research networks of authors with a minimum of 5 papers on Geriatric Nursing (1990–2020). Authors in the same cluster had close research interests.
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Figure 5
Network visualization map of most frequent terms in authors' keywords of the retrieved literature on Geriatric Nursing (1990–2020).
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