L’impatto citazionale della ricerca infermieristica italiana. Una lettura dell’attività scientifica nel nursing attraverso gli indici bibliometrici

摘要

Nursing research has rapidly grown in the last 10 years in Italy, however no citational effect of the amount of nursing scientific production has been developed untill now. Understanding this could be useful to address further research and the scientific development of nursing research in Italy. This paper highlights the main characteristics of Italian research and analyzes the citational impact of papers published untill december 2009.