International nursing research collaboration: Visualizing the output and impact of a Fulbright Award

Downing, Charlené; Temane, Annie; Bader, Susan Gerding; Hillyer, Jean L; Beatty, Sean Christopher; Hastings‐Tolsma, Marie

doi:10.1016/j.ijans.2021.100380

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“…Exchange in knowledge, expertise, and experience among collaborators provide multiple perspectives and innovations in a local issue that has global implications ( Bueno and Gallani, 2016 ; Gronkjar and Rasmussen, 2020 ; Tankersley, 2022 ). It has a positive impact on knowledge and research productivity of individual researchers and institutions ( Downing et al, 2021 ; Tankersely, 2022 ; Wai-Chan, 2017 ). Well-designed research collaborations can provide evidence-based data to stakeholders for policy formulation that impact nursing and patient outcomes ( Bueno and Gallani, 2016 ).…”

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International nurse education research collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Researchers' perspectives

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Nurse Education Today

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International nurse education research collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Researchers' perspectives

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“…Kantek and Yesilbas (2020) pointed out that bibliometric analysis is an effective way to evaluate and compare different journals, authors, research areas and academic outcomes. According to Downing et al (2021), bibliometric analysis is widely used in qualitative and quantitative research to assess and compare the trends and academic influences of journals. The method relies on specific papers to identify publications, citations, authors, countries and keywords.…”

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Bibliometric analysis of core competencies associated nursing management publications

Hwang

Chang

2022

J Nursing Management

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Aims This study aimed to identify high‐impact papers on global nursing to determine and analyse the publication of articles on core competencies in nursing‐related journals and the research trends in the era of globalization. Background Bibliometrics has been shown to be an effective method for analysing publications. Through bibliometrics, nursing managers and researchers can understand the trends of high‐impact international nursing core competencies research, identify mainstream research directions and obtain relevant knowledge and information, thereby facilitating the translation of research outcomes into nursing management practice. Evaluation The study adopted bibliometric analysis and the VOSviewer software to explore dynamic publication trends and analyse the current situation of nursing research from a comprehensive development perspective, which was realized by searching for nursing core competencies papers in the Web of Science (WoS) database, calculating citations and determining the trends of the most influential papers. Key issues Nursing core competencies research grew rapidly between 1997 and 2022. Countries with the most core competencies publications were the United States, England, Australia and Canada. The Journal of Nursing Management has attracted substantial attention from researchers worldwide. Education, Management and Nurses were the most frequently used keywords in the study. A total of 534 papers were retrieved from the WoS database with the main research fields, including nursing, business economics, public environmental occupational health and health care science services. Conclusion Equipping nursing graduates with core competencies has always been an important goal of global medical and nursing education. This study analysed papers across 35 years, most of which were published in the Journal of Nursing Management. In addition, the study identified some of the main research topics of nursing management, such as the integration of education with nursing management and the cultivation of nurses' core competencies. The study also provides a fresh review of highly cited articles. The results of the study show that high‐quality articles play the role of improving both the quality and the quantity of related research. By analysing the trends of the research on core competencies, this study lays a bibliometric foundation for researchers regarding international journals, hot topics and relevant fields. In addition, the highly cited articles reveal new perspectives for the nursing field, providing inspiration for nursing management and education researchers. Implications for Nursing Management This study provides scholars and managers with an overview of the current situation of nursing management research and the development of benchmark journals. The study provides researchers not only with a better understanding of various international journals, allowing them to transition out of traditional thinking in the era of science and technology, but also with innovative thinking by comb...

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“…Traditional bibliometrics and other approaches to measuring scholarly and scientific publishing are available, such as altmetrics or webometrics. Among them, traditional bibliometrics is frequently used in studies of research collaboration (Downing et al, 2021).…”

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International Research Collaboration Measurement

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How international research collaboration (IRC) activities of a country are evaluated can have a marked influence on policy and research funding decisions. This thesis explores this topic in three stages: first, the relevant literature on international research collaboration measurement (IRCM) is reviewed; following the review, the roles of three elements relevant to IRCM are explored, namely, data sources, measures, and indicators; finally, the findings are used to propose recommendations for using these elements when evaluating IRC. This thesis is beneficial in the contemporary academic landscape. Most academics are aware of the inequities that are systemically ingrained by the numerous metrics that are used to measure academic impact and excellence. These metrics may reflect inherent biases as they can be manipulated by individuals or countries seeking to improve their evaluation outcomes by capitalising on specific opportunities. Therefore, these metrics foster harmful competition and artificial elitism, and disadvantage marginalised communities and countries. This thesis challenges the common conception in IRCM that anything can be measured easily and sheds light on the fact that the way measurements are conducted influences the outcomes and as a result can have real-world consequences (e.g., how countries would be ranked according to international collaborative research activities). This thesis consists of scientific papers that are combined into a larger research project, and is organised into three parts. Part 1 introduces the literature and fundamentals of the research. Part 2 presents empirical studies. Part 3 synthesises the results and features an overall conclusion to the thesis. Part 1 includes an introductory chapter and literature reviews. The introduction chapter outlines the motivation, questions, and methodology that guide the overall project. Chapter 2 is the literature review chapter, which includes a scoping review study, a main path analysis paper, and a systematic review study. The scoping review can be considered exploratory research to identify the research topics and gaps in the IRCM domain. The main path analysis represents the next step to explore the development of knowledge surrounding these research topics individually. The systematic review inspects the approaches of combining different elements in IRCM. Part 2 consists of empirical studies of the roles of the three important elements in IRCM: data sources, measures, and indicators. Chapter 3 consists of three scientific papers, each describing a study, that explores the role of data sources in IRCM. The first study establishes a method to resolve and complete authors' country affiliation data in bibliographic records, because missing country affiliation information is a problem for the accuracy of IRCM in both research and practice. The method proposed in that paper is then applied in the empirical studies that follow within the thesis. The second study explores the general effects of data set choices on measuring IRC, and the third study then assesses the quality of bibliographic data sources to evaluate and determine the most suitable data sources for measuring IRC. Chapter 4 then focuses on how the measures impact IRCM results and thus study outcomes, consisting of two papers describing one study each. The first study analyses how two different underlying methods of counting collaborations – whole count and fractional count – affect the results of IRCM. The second study assesses the effect of three approaches to choosing measures of IRC on the results of IRCM - absolute strength, bilateral similarity, and multilateral similarity - in IRCM. Chapter 5 focuses on empirical studies about the role of indicators in IRCM, consisting of two papers (again one study each). The first study examines the effects of different factors on IRC indicators: the country of the collaborators and the discipline of the publication are examined for their effect on asymmetric co-authorship relationships between countries. The second study examines the relationships between the primary indicators of IRC: the co-publications and co-patents are investigated to see how they affect each other over time. Part 3 comprises a synthesis chapter and a conclusion chapter. Chapter 6 synthesises the roles of different elements and proposes a general measurement model of indicators in IRCM. The thesis concludes with a chapter outlining the conclusions and contributions of the above scientific papers in information science theory, methodology, and practice.

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International nursing research collaboration: Visualizing the output and impact of a Fulbright Award

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International nurse education research collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Researchers' perspectives

International nurse education research collaboration during the COVID-19 pandemic: Researchers' perspectives

Bibliometric analysis of core competencies associated nursing management publications

International Research Collaboration Measurement

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