A text mining and network analysis of topics and trends in major nursing research journals.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

This study is set to determine the main topics of the nursing field and to show the changing perspectives over time by analysing the abstracts of several major nursing research journals using text mining methodology.

Design

Text mining and network analysis.

Methods

Text analysis combines automatic and manual operations to identify patterns in unstructured data. Detailed searches covering 1998-2021 were conducted in PubMed archives to collect articles from six nursing journals: Journal of Advanced Nursing, International Journal of Nursing Studies, Western Journal of Nursing Research, Nursing Research, Journal of Nursing Scholarship and Research in Nursing and Health. This study uses a four-phase text mining and network approach, gathering text data and cleaning, pr

SUBMITTER: Oner B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10697125 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature