TY - JOUR T1 - Mapping the Nursing Literature in Wound, Ostomy and Incontinence Care: A Bibliometric Analysis TT - Yara, Stoma ve İnkontinans Bakımında Hemşirelik Literatürünün Haritalanması: Bibliyometrik Bir Analiz AU - Küçükakça Çelik, Gülden AU - Taylan, Seçil PY - 2025 DA - June Y2 - 2025 DO - 10.37989/gumussagbil.1608135 JF - Gümüşhane Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi JO - Gümüşhane Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi PB - Gümüşhane Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-9954 SP - 809 EP - 822 VL - 14 IS - 2 LA - en AB - This search was undertaken to provide a structured macroscopic overview of the characteristics and research advances associated with the nursing literature in wound, ostomy, and incontinence care. Web of Science was selected as the search engine for the bibliometric analysis. The analysis was performed using the "biblioshiny" application available in the bibliometrics package R. The study analysed 8537 nursing articles on wounds, 737 on ostomies and 3459 on urinary incontinence. There are 1767 productive journals on wound care, 230 on ostomy care and 854 on incontinence care. 9 journals on wounds, 5 on ostomies and 17 on incontinence were in the first zone according to Bradford's law. It was found that authors' publication productivity did not follow Lotka's law in any of the three fields. The study analysed by keyword plus. In the nursing literature, research on wounds tends to focus on care, management and prevention; research on ostomies: quality of life, surgery and stoma; research on incontinence tends to focus on prevalence, urinary incontinence and quality of life. Looking at the top five countries producing nursing publications on this topic; for wounds USA, Australia, China, UK, Japan; for ostomy USA, China, UK, Turkey, Brazil; for incontinence Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey. This bibliometric study provided comprehensive information on global trends and highlights in wound, ostomy and incontinence research, three specific fields of WOC nursing literature. It also identified common and different aspects of the literature across these three specific fields of WOC nursing. KW - Wound KW - Ostomy KW - İncontinence KW - Nursing KW - Bibliometric Analysis N2 - This search was undertaken to provide a structured macroscopic overview of the characteristics and research advances associated with the nursing literature in wound, ostomy, and incontinence care. Web of Science was selected as the search engine for the bibliometric analysis. The analysis was performed using the "biblioshiny" application available in the bibliometrics package R. The study analysed 8537 nursing articles on wounds, 737 on ostomies and 3459 on urinary incontinence. There are 1767 productive journals on wound care, 230 on ostomy care and 854 on incontinence care. 9 journals on wounds, 5 on ostomies and 17 on incontinence were in the first zone according to Bradford's law. It was found that authors' publication productivity did not follow Lotka's law in any of the three fields. The study analysed by keyword plus. In the nursing literature, research on wounds tends to focus on care, management and prevention; research on ostomies: quality of life, surgery and stoma; research on incontinence tends to focus on prevalence, urinary incontinence and quality of life. Looking at the top five countries producing nursing publications on this topic; for wounds USA, Australia, China, UK, Japan; for ostomy USA, China, UK, Turkey, Brazil; for incontinence Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Turkey. 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