Text analysis of research topics from nursing journals. McDonald, D., McDonald, K., & Johnson, J. J. Comput. Sci. Coll., 37(2):51–60, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges, Evansville, IN, USA, oct, 2021.
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Over the last five decades, with numerous advances in medicine and changes in patient payment models, the nursing profession has evolved. We analyzed 26,705 abstracts from three different nursing journals that spanned five decades, including the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. We extracted the research topics from the abstracts and aggregated them by decade. We compared research topics by decade and looked for dependencies between decades. We also looked for common research topics that spanned all five decades. With nursing research increasing in sophistication and quality, we looked for a greater focus on research within the journals. Finally, we looked for increasing coverage of nursing education in the research. We found that any decade of research topics was most like the following decade of topics. We also found a common core of topics that were shared across all five decades that included topics such as nurses, patients, diseases, injuries, and medical providers. Finally, we found a growing trend for research-related topics in the later decades and a declining trend for topics related to continuing education, education degrees, and education credit.
@article{10.5555/3503984.3503989,
author = {McDonald, Daniel and McDonald, Karina and Johnson, Jace},
title = {Text analysis of research topics from nursing journals},
year = {2021},
issue_date = {October 2021},
publisher = {Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges},
address = {Evansville, IN, USA},
volume = {37},
number = {2},
issn = {1937-4771},
abstract = {Over the last five decades, with numerous advances in medicine and changes in patient payment models, the nursing profession has evolved. We analyzed 26,705 abstracts from three different nursing journals that spanned five decades, including the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s. We extracted the research topics from the abstracts and aggregated them by decade. We compared research topics by decade and looked for dependencies between decades. We also looked for common research topics that spanned all five decades. With nursing research increasing in sophistication and quality, we looked for a greater focus on research within the journals. Finally, we looked for increasing coverage of nursing education in the research. We found that any decade of research topics was most like the following decade of topics. We also found a common core of topics that were shared across all five decades that included topics such as nurses, patients, diseases, injuries, and medical providers. Finally, we found a growing trend for research-related topics in the later decades and a declining trend for topics related to continuing education, education degrees, and education credit.},
journal = {J. Comput. Sci. Coll.},
month = {oct},
pages = {51–60},
numpages = {10}
}

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