Historical, descriptive and exploratory analysis of application of bibliometrics in nursing research

The aim of the study was to analyse the literature production on application of bibliometrics in nursing research.Historical, descriptive, and exploratory bibliometrics analyses were used. The papers were harvested from the Scopus bibliographical database (Elsevier, Maribor, Netherlands), on November 18th, 2018, using the search string bibliometric* in publication titles, abstracts, and keywords, limited to the subject of nursing, for the period...