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Research in Nursing and Health
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Research in Nursing and Health

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Psychology 864 30 23 7
Medicine 2251 28 35 11

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 86
Documents by Best Scientists*: 86
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 4
SCIMAGO H-index: 100
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.9
Impact Factor: 2.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at Research in Nursing & Health?

The journal primarily tackles Nursing, Gerontology, Clinical psychology, Developmental psychology and Public health. It explores topics in Nursing which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Health care, MEDLINE and Family medicine. Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Gerontology and the similar topic of Psychological intervention.

Topics in Clinical psychology were tackled in line with various other fields like Psychiatry, Anxiety and Scale (social sciences). The study on Developmental psychology presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Social support. The studies in Psychometrics featured incorporate elements of Construct validity, Test validity and Cronbach's alpha.

  • Nursing (16.97%)
  • Gerontology (15.07%)
  • Clinical psychology (14.81%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Whatever happened to qualitative description (6408 citations)
  • Sample size in qualitative research (2623 citations)
  • The content validity index: Are you sure you know what's being reported? critique and recommendations (2000 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Research in Nursing & Health:

The published articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Clinical psychology, Public health, Developmental psychology, Gerontology and Social support. The featured Clinical psychology studies in the most cited publications mainly concentrate on Scale (social sciences) but also cover areas of interest in Reliability (statistics). While the primary focus in the published papers is Gerontology, they also dissect topics surrounding Research design and Data collection as a whole.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Internal medicine
  • Law
  • Disease

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The primary areas of discussion in Research in Nursing & Health are Psychological intervention, Nursing, Randomized controlled trial, Physical therapy and Health care. Psychological intervention research presented in the journal encompasses a variety of subjects, including Systematic review, Gerontology, Family medicine and Telehealth. Nursing research featured in Research in Nursing & Health incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Confirmatory factor analysis and Burnout.

The journal tackles studies in Anxiety and the interrelated subject of Affect (psychology) to gain insights into Physical therapy. It explores research in Qualitative research and overlapping concepts in Coping (psychology) to expand the discourse in Health care. The featured Psychometrics research is covered under the field of Clinical psychology.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Psychometric properties of Copenhagen Burnout Inventory among nurses. (6 citations)
  • Can you hear me now?: Improving palliative care access through telehealth. (5 citations)
  • Improved readability and functions needed for mHealth apps targeting patients with heart failure: An app store review (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Research in Nursing & Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Margarete Sandelowski (41 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Margaret H. Kearney (32 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Deborah Gross (24 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Diane Holditch-Davis (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Madeline H. Schmitt (23 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Research in Nursing & Health (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (130 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (116 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Rochester (90 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Illinois at Chicago (83 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Pennsylvania (79 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 3.03% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 23.96% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.46% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 26.04% of all publications and 38.54% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

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Top Publications

  • Family resilience and flourishment: Well-being among children with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.

    Kayla Herbell;Susan M. Breitenstein;Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk;Jinhong Guo

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • Changes in proportion of bachelor's nurses associated with improvements in patient outcomes

    Karen B Lasater;Karen B Lasater;Douglas M Sloane;Matthew D McHugh;Matthew D McHugh;Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch;Joshua Porat-Dahlerbruch

    (2021)
    35 Citations
  • The Self-Care of Heart Failure Index version 7.2: Further psychometric testing.

    Ercole Vellone;Maddalena De Maria;Paolo Iovino;Paolo Iovino;Claudio Barbaranelli

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Are we listening to community health workers? Experiences of the community health worker journey in rural South Africa.

    (2022)
    24 Citations
  • Characterizing shared and distinct symptom clusters in common chronic conditions through natural language processing of nursing notes.

    Theresa A Koleck;Maxim Topaz;Nicholas P Tatonetti;Maureen George

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Symptoms among emerging adults with inflammatory bowel disease: a descriptive study.

    Kendra Kamp;Sharon Dudley-Brown;Margaret Heitkemper;Gwen Wyatt

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Functional health literacy and caregiving burden among family caregivers of patients with end-stage renal disease.

    Mona A. Abed;Anas H. Khalifeh;Amani A. Khalil;Muhammad W. Darawad

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Recruitment of women veterans into suicide prevention research: Improving response rates with enhanced recruitment materials and multiple survey modalities

    Laurel A Gaeddert;Alexandra L Schneider;Christin N Miller;Lindsey L Monteith;Lindsey L Monteith

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Social connectedness among parents raising children in low-income communities: An integrative review.

    Corinne M. Plesko;Zhiyuan Yu;Karin Tobin;Deborah Gross

    (2021)
    14 Citations

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