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Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation

Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation is a research topic within Issues, ethics and legal aspects. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the quality, evaluation, and impact of nursing documentation, including the use of standardized terminologies, electronic health records, and clinical reasoning. It also explores the relationship between nursing diagnoses and patient outcomes, as well as the potential for leveraging big data in nursing practice. The research emphasizes the importance of accurate and comprehensive nursing documentation for improving healthcare delivery.

  • Nursing Documentation
  • Nursing Diagnoses
  • Standardized Terminologies
  • Clinical Reasoning
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Nursing Process
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Outcomes
  • Healthcare Practice
  • Big Data in Nursing
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (587 and 550 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 587 works
  2. 2 Brazil 550 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 134 works
  4. 4 China 116 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 109 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 98 works
  7. 7 Spain 91 works
  8. 8 Canada 76 works
  9. 9 Australia 74 works
  10. 10 Portugal 64 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 30.9%Brazil: 28.9%Türkiye: 7.1%China: 6.1%6 others listed: 27.0%31%largest
United States587 · 30.9%Brazil550 · 28.9%Türkiye134 · 7.1%China116 · 6.1%6 others listed512 · 27.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal Fluminense.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 25 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 20 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 18 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 17 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 16 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 16 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 15 works
  8. 8 Harvard UniversityUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 13 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation include Jeremy Grimshaw, Patrick M. Bossuyt and Azeem Majeed.

  1. 1 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  2. 2 Patrick M. Bossuyt Netherlands 270k citations
  3. 3 Azeem Majeed United Kingdom 235k citations
  4. 4 Peter John Barnes United Kingdom 225k citations
  5. 5 Michael Snyder United States 224k citations
  6. 6 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation?

The most cited paper in Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation is "Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis" (Hsiu-Fang Hsieh, Sarah Elizabeth Shannon, 2005), with 45,237 citations. Next come "Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness" (21,197) and "Nursing Research Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice" (5,596).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis Hsiu-Fang Hsieh, Sarah Elizabeth Shannon · Qualitative Health Research 4 Oct 2005 45,237
2 Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness Ulla Hällgren Graneheim, Berit M Lundman · Nurse Education Today 7 Nov 2003 21,197
3 Nursing Research Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice Fiona Timmins · Nurse Education in Practice 17 Apr 2013 5,596
4 Is the CVI an acceptable indicator of content validity? Appraisal and recommendations Denise F. Polit, Cheryl Tatano Beck, Steven V. Owen · Research in Nursing & Health 24 Jul 2007 5,253
5 Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Klaus Friedrich Rabe, Suzanne S. Hurd, Antonio Anzueto et al. · American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine Open access 16 May 2007 4,704
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Where is Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation research done?

The largest centres of Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), London (United Kingdom) and Fortaleza (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Fortaleza, Porto Alegre and Florianópolis.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 79 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 42 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 36 works
  4. 4 FortalezaBrazil 34 works
  5. 5 Porto AlegreBrazil 30 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 26 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 25 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 23 works
  10. 10 LisbonPortugal 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FortalezaBR · 34.2 works15×
  2. Porto AlegreBR · 30.4 works9.9×
  3. FlorianópolisBR · 22.7 works9.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and University of Toronto score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 9.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Pennsy…Universidade de São …
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.421.6%1.8×14 +4.3%
2University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 57.314.9%3.8×10 +15.6%
3University of TorontoCanada 54.618.0%1.8×9 +19.7%
4Universidade de São PauloBrazil 51.83.7%4.8×25 +6.2%
5Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 48.65.4%10.3×20 -4.6%
6Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil 48.49.2%18.4×18 +0.5%
7Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 45.15.0%14.2×16 +25.0%
8University of FloridaUnited States 44.910.6%3.0×8 +24.3%
9Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 44.20.9%9.5×16 +17.7%
10Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 42.01.0%14.8×16 +11.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation, country by country

Is Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation10.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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