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Abstract
Background: Highly cited papers in critical care nursing can offer valuable insights for all stakeholders engaged in the research process by highlighting key research trends, guiding resource allocation and shaping future research priorities.
Aim: To gain insights from the top-cited papers in the top critical care nursing journals.
Study design: This was a bibliometric analysis of the top-cited papers in the top critical care nursing journals as reported by the Journal Citation Report 2023-released in June 2024. Data were tabulated and visualized using Microsoft Excel and the VOSviewer software.
Results: Forty papers from the top four critical care nursing journals (Intensive and Critical Care Nursing [ICCN], Nursing in Critical Care [NICC], Australian Critical Care [ACC] and American Journal of Critical Care [AJCC]) were analysed. Half of the analysed papers were related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and mental health was the most addressed theme (n = 11 papers). Papers from the ICCN featured contributions from 17 countries, the highest among the journals analysed, followed by NICC, with contributions from 11 countries. Articles received more citations than reviews (median [interquartile range]: 18 [9-23] vs. 8 [8-11.5]), and open-access papers were cited about twice those published under a subscription model (19 [16-31] vs. 9 [8-15]). In ICCN, 9 of the 10 analysed papers were published open access compared with 3 in NICC and ACC and 2 in AJCC.
Conclusions: The identified themes in this paper underscore the dynamic nature of the field of critical care nursing and the ongoing efforts to address key challenges in critical care nursing practice and health care delivery. Publishing open-access articles on trending topics and collaborating internationally seem to be effective approaches for gaining more citations.
Relevance to research: Understanding these prevalent themes has significant implications for guiding research priorities, informing clinical practice, shaping policy and improving patient outcomes. Academic journals need to encourage increasing the representation of researchers from the Global South in both journals' editorial boards and submissions to the journals.
背景：重症护理领域的高被引论文可以通过突出关键研究趋势、指导资源分配和塑造未来研究重点，为参与研究过程的所有利益相关者提供有价值的见解。目的：从重症监护顶级期刊被引次数最多的论文中获得启示。研究设计：这是对2024年6月发布的《期刊引用报告2023》中顶级重症护理期刊中被引用最多的论文的文献计量学分析。使用Microsoft Excel和VOSviewer软件对数据进行制表和可视化处理。结果：对来自4大重症护理期刊（Intensive and critical care nursing [ICCN]、nursing in critical care [NICC]、Australian critical care [ACC]和American Journal of critical care [AJCC]）的40篇论文进行分析。分析的论文中有一半与COVID-19大流行有关，心理健康是讨论最多的主题（n = 11篇论文）。ICCN的论文有来自17个国家的贡献，在分析的期刊中最多，其次是NICC，有来自11个国家的贡献。文章的引用率高于评论（中位数[四分位数范围]:18 [9-23]vs. 8[8-11.5]），开放获取论文的引用率约为订阅模式下论文的两倍（19 [16-31]vs. 9[8-15]）。在ICCN中，10篇分析论文中有9篇是开放获取的，而在NICC和ACC中为3篇，在AJCC中为2篇。结论：本文确定的主题强调了重症护理领域的动态性质，以及正在努力解决重症护理实践和卫生保健提供中的关键挑战。发表关于热门话题的开放获取文章和国际合作似乎是获得更多引用的有效方法。与研究相关：了解这些流行主题对指导研究重点、为临床实践提供信息、制定政策和改善患者预后具有重要意义。学术期刊需要鼓励增加来自全球南方的研究人员在期刊编辑委员会和期刊投稿中所占的比例。
期刊介绍：
Nursing in Critical Care is an international peer-reviewed journal covering any aspect of critical care nursing practice, research, education or management. Critical care nursing is defined as the whole spectrum of skills, knowledge and attitudes utilised by practitioners in any setting where adults or children, and their families, are experiencing acute and critical illness. Such settings encompass general and specialist hospitals, and the community. Nursing in Critical Care covers the diverse specialities of critical care nursing including surgery, medicine, cardiac, renal, neurosciences, haematology, obstetrics, accident and emergency, neonatal nursing and paediatrics.
Papers published in the journal normally fall into one of the following categories:
-research reports
-literature reviews
-developments in practice, education or management
-reflections on practice
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