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Nursing education and management

Nursing education and management is a research topic within Research and Theory. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on qualitative content analysis, nursing staffing, patient outcomes, job satisfaction, and the healthcare environment. It explores topics such as nurse turnover, clinical practice, workplace empowerment, and professional identity using qualitative research methods like phenomenology.

  • Nursing Staffing
  • Patient Outcomes
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Qualitative Research
  • Healthcare Environment
  • Nurse Turnover
  • Clinical Practice
  • Phenomenology
  • Workplace Empowerment
  • Professional Identity
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nursing education and management

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

Which countries lead Nursing education and management research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.8k and 681 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 China 681 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 440 works
  4. 4 Australia 417 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 317 works
  6. 6 Iran 282 works
  7. 7 Canada 249 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 164 works
  9. 9 South Korea 150 works
  10. 10 Sweden 144 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: 38.5%China: 14.7%United Kingdom: 9.5%Australia: 9.0%6 others listed: 28.2%38%largest
United States1,780 · 38.5%China681 · 14.7%United Kingdom440 · 9.5%Australia417 · 9.0%6 others listed1,306 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Nursing education and management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Iranshahr University publishes the most Nursing education and management research, followed by Sichuan University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Iranshahr UniversityIran 35 works
  2. 2 Sichuan UniversityChina 32 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 28 works
  5. 5 Central South UniversityChina 25 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 23 works
  7. 7 Harvard UniversityUnited States 23 works
  8. 8 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 22 works
  9. 9 La Trobe UniversityAustralia 22 works
  10. 10 Apple (United States)United States 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nursing education and management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nursing education and management include Mika Kivimäki, Jeremy Grimshaw and Martin McKee.

  1. 1 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
  2. 2 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  3. 3 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  4. 4 Florian Fischer Germany 257k citations
  5. 5 David John Hunter Australia 211k 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 education and management?

The most cited paper in Nursing education and management is "The qualitative content analysis process" (Satu Elo, Helvi Aulikki Kyngäs, 2008), with 22,967 citations. Next come "Qualitative content analysis in nursing research: concepts, procedures and measures to achieve trustworthiness" (21,197) and "Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction" (5,249).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The qualitative content analysis process Satu Elo, Helvi Aulikki Kyngäs · Journal of Advanced Nursing Open access 18 Mar 2008 22,967
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 Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction Linda H. Aiken · JAMA 23 Oct 2002 5,249
4 The problem of rigor in qualitative research Margarete Sandelowski · Advances in Nursing Science Apr 1986 2,783
5 Making it safe: the effects of leader inclusiveness and professional status on psychological safety and improvement efforts in health care teams Ingrid M. Nembhard, Amy C. Edmondson · Journal of Organizational Behavior 21 Sep 2006 2,296
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Nursing education and management research done?

The largest centres of Nursing education and management research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Melbourne (Australia) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Iranshahr and Herzliya.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 94 works
  2. 2 RiyadhSaudi Arabia 82 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 82 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 72 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 70 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 66 works
  7. 7 SeoulSouth Korea 62 works
  8. 8 ChengduChina 59 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 57 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. IranshahrIR · 34.5 works60×
  2. HerzliyaIL · 22.0 works31×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nursing education and management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nursing education and management?

Among universities, judged by research, Sichuan University, Alexandria University and King Saud University 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%20%40%mean 23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Alexandria UniversitySichuan UniversityCentral South Univer…King Saud University
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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
1Sichuan UniversityChina 71.624.7%2.3×32 +335.1%
2Alexandria UniversityEgypt 64.030.2%5.4×16 +315.6%
3King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 63.010.5%4.6×28 +122.0%
4Central South UniversityChina 63.022.8%2.1×25 +279.3%
5Iranshahr UniversityIran 62.612.4%67.8×34 +107.7%
6University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 60.717.8%3.4×22 +31.5%
7Sultan Qaboos UniversityOman 57.919.2%9.7×11 +19.6%
8Ewha Womans UniversitySouth Korea 57.536.9%7.3×10 +38.1%
9Zhejiang UniversityChina 56.126.4%0.9×16 +342.1%
10National University of SingaporeSingapore 56.129.1%1.9×14 +2.1%

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 education and management, country by country

Is Nursing education and management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nursing education and management.

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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 education and management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Nursing education and management0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nursing education and management 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 education and management10.0% 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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