Tendency and foci of nurse practitioners: bibliometric analysis based on the CiteSpaceV†

Abstract

Nurse practitioners (NPs) have drawn significant attention recently and played a major role in healthcare. We aim to find the evaluation of NPs through published studies and then visualize the research status and hotspots in this field.

Keywords

• bibliometric analysis
• citespace
• mapping knowledge domain
• nurse practitioners
• visualization
• web of science core collection