Analysis of published articles supported by Clinical Nursing Fund in 12 core nursing journals from 2015 to 2018 / 中华医学科研管理杂志

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Objective:To understand the status quo and problems of clinical nursing fund paper publication in China from 2015 to 2018.Methods:The clinical nursing fund papers published in 12 core nursing journals and published by Chinese Authors in WOS database were analyzed by using bibliometrics methodology. Information analyzed including year distribution, number of authors, regional distribution, the number of institutions, research nature, research type, statistical application, specialty distribution and research content.Results:From 2015 to 2018, the proportion of clinical nursing fund papers was increasing, the proportion of funded papers in Chinese and WOS was 44.06% and 51.46% respectively, the main funding sources of each project came from provinces or direct-controlled municipalities level(42.02% in Chinese and 33.06% in WOS). Chinese fund papers were mainly co-authored by four people (20.18%) and mostly from the same institution (67.83%), the fund papers collected by WOS were mainly co-authored by six people (21.14%) and mainly produced by two institutions (40.65%). Clinical trials (26.64%) were the main research types of Chinese funded papers, and statistical inference (73.15%) was the main application of statistical methods. Jiangsu (14.58%) produced the most Chinese fund papers, and the first authors of the fund papers collected by WOS mostly came from Taiwan (43.90%); the main research topics were oncology nursing (16.65% in Chinese and 22.49% in WOS) and disease and symptom nursing (23.57% in Chinese and 23.04% in WOS).Conclusions:The number of papers on clinical nursing fund was increasing year by year, the application of statistics is basically stable, the sources of fund funding were increasingly diversified, and the trend of scientific research cooperation was increasing. Economically developed areas were the main force of scientific research output. The focus of clinical nursing research was oncology nursing and disease and symptom nursing.