Leadership in Nursing: Research Trends

Year 2020, Volume: 6 Issue: 11, 1 - 10, 27.10.2020

Hande Yeşilbaş , Filiz Kantek

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the research trends in articles published on leadership in nursing. Leadership is a major research topic in nursing. However, the research trends in leadership in nursing still remain unknown.
The researchers used a certain keyword “leadership” in 833 research articles in the nursing category of the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) in the Web of Science (WoS) database, and in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) WoS index. The research data were recorded and analyzed in Excel and they were visualized in VOSviewer program. The study findings indicated that research articles on leadership in nursing were produced in 49 different countries between 1970 and 2018. It was additionally noted that USA has the highest number of publications and that the Journal of Administration was the most popular journal in regard to leadership in nursing topic. It was also reported that a majority of these studies (98.6%) were published in English with most common keywords “leadership”, ‘‘nursing’’, “transformational leadership”, “leadership in nursing”.It was further found that the number of studies on leadership in nursing has been gradually increasing, that the researchers in the United States were trailblazers in the field, and that the Journal of Administration has been one of the main sources of data. This study, accordingly, is considered to guide researchers in relation to research trends in leadership in nursing.

Keywords

NURSİNG, LEADERSHIP, NURSE, SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSİS, BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

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