Assessing research quality

Jane Robinson's 2000 JAN Editorial shows that bibliometric data, with all its limitations, can be a useful tool in a broad inquiry into the state of a discipline and its publishing trends. In relation to nursing, the research she discussed is the work that we carried out at the United Kingdom's (UK) Centre for Policy in Nursing Research (CPNR). The bibliometric work that we undertook in collaboration with the Science Policy Unit at the Wellcome...