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Nursing Roles and Practices

Nursing Roles and Practices is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of nurse practitioners in primary care, focusing on their role in addressing physician shortages, providing cost-effective and high-quality care, patient satisfaction, and collaborative practice within the health workforce. It also delves into the scope of practice and the evolving role of nurse practitioners in transforming healthcare delivery.

  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Primary Care
  • Health Workforce
  • Advanced Practice Nursing
  • Physician Shortage
  • Patient Satisfaction
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Scope of Practice
  • Collaborative Practice
  • Health Care Delivery
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nursing Roles and Practices

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

Which countries lead Nursing Roles and Practices research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.2k and 508 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 508 works
  3. 3 Australia 239 works
  4. 4 Canada 211 works
  5. 5 China 71 works
  6. 6 Germany 65 works
  7. 7 Ireland 61 works
  8. 8 France 54 works
  9. 9 India 47 works
  10. 10 Spain 46 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: 48.3%United Kingdom: 20.2%Australia: 9.5%Canada: 8.4%6 others listed: 13.7%48%largest
United States1,218 · 48.3%United Kingdom508 · 20.2%Australia239 · 9.5%Canada211 · 8.4%6 others listed345 · 13.7%

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

Which institutions lead Nursing Roles and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Nursing Roles and Practices research, followed by Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 22 works
  2. 2 Harvard UniversityUnited States 20 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 16 works
  5. 5 Monash UniversityAustralia 16 works
  6. 6 United States Department of Veterans AffairsUnited States 15 works
  7. 7 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 14 works
  8. 8 The University of QueenslandAustralia 14 works
  9. 9 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 13 works
  10. 10 The University of SydneyAustralia 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nursing Roles and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nursing Roles and Practices include John J.V. McMurray, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Roles and Practices?

The most cited paper in Nursing Roles and Practices is "Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction" (Linda H. Aiken, 2002), with 5,249 citations. Next come "Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals" (2,261) and "Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study" (2,245).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction Linda H. Aiken · JAMA 23 Oct 2002 5,249
2 Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals Jack Needleman, Peter I. Buerhaus, Soeren Mattke et al. · New England Journal of Medicine Open access 30 May 2002 2,261
3 Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Luk Bruyneel et al. · The Lancet Open access 26 Feb 2014 2,245
4 Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes Scott Reeves, Laure Perrier, Joanne Goldman et al. · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Open access 28 Mar 2013 1,740
5 Educational Levels of Hospital Nurses and Surgical Patient Mortality Linda H. Aiken · JAMA Open access 23 Sep 2003 1,739
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Nursing Roles and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Nursing Roles and Practices research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Dublin (Ireland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sheffield.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 115 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 49 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 45 works
  4. 4 DublinIreland 40 works
  5. 5 BrisbaneAustralia 40 works
  6. 6 BostonUnited States 39 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 38 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 35 works
  9. 9 ChicagoUnited States 31 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SheffieldGB · 22.1 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Nursing Roles and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Pennsylvania, University of Sheffield and University College Dublin 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.

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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
1University of PennsylvaniaUnited States 62.222.1%4.6×13 +41.4%
2University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 59.17.6%11.1×16 +54.3%
3University College DublinIreland 58.815.7%9.0×13 +17.4%
4University of TorontoCanada 58.19.2%4.0×22 -3.6%
5Columbia UniversityUnited States 57.527.7%3.3×10 -4.6%
6Monash UniversityAustralia 57.112.5%5.9×16 -1.5%
7Harvard UniversityUnited States 56.913.8%2.2×20 +26.0%
8Trinity College DublinIreland 55.617.8%7.4×9 +65.9%
9McMaster UniversityCanada 55.310.4%7.6×12 +13.5%
10University College CorkIreland 53.813.8%9.9×8 +102.8%

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 Roles and Practices, country by country

Is Nursing Roles and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Nursing Roles and Practices.

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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 Roles and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nursing Roles and Practices 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 Roles and Practices10.2% 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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