Analysis on citations of clinical nursing fund literatures in 12 nursing core periodicals from year 2012 to 2014

Objective To understand the quality of articles of funded clinical nursing and the utilization status of information used by individuals who undertake funded projects. Methods The full text of digital periodicals database (wanfang database) was used, both mechanically and manually to collect data about citation amount, type, source and language of articles of funded clinical nursing published in 12 nursing core journals. Results Percentage of articles of funded clinical nursing was increasing. Average citation amount of each article was increasing yearly with 13.01 items in 2014; 63.37% of citation was Chinese. A larger proportion of citation was nursing papers, accounting for 62.11%. The main source of the citation was Chinese journals; Chinese journals were cited by 86.17% and foreign languages periodicals were cited by 95.51%. Conclusions Quality of clinical nursing articles has been improved yearly as well as researchers′ ability to utilize information. However, the ability to read and utilize foreign literature need to be strengthened. Key words: Clinical nursing; Fund literature; Citation analysis