Bibliometric analysis of Türkiye-origin randomized controlled studies indexed in the Web of Science core collection database in psychiatric nursing

This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of prominent study areas, changes, and developments in randomized controlled studies from Türkiye, indexed in the Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection database within the field of psychiatric nursing. Research data comprised 82 randomized controlled studies between January 1, 1945, and December 31, 2021, retrieved from the WOS Core Collection database using the keywords “psychiatric” AND “nursing” AND “randomized controlled” OR “randomized controlled trial” OR “intervention.” Data were identified and analyzed using citation analysis, bibliographic matching, co-occurrence analysis, and co-author analysis through the VOSviewer 1.6.18 software program. Out of the 82 published studies, 72 (87.8%) were published in journals in the Q2 and Q3 quartiles. A significant increase in both the number of studies and citations received was observed after 2016. The average number of citations per article is 4.4. The prominent subjects in the studies were schizophrenia, psychiatric nursing, nursing, and nursing students; the most current topics were schizophrenia, nursing students, resilience/resilience, disability, hope and hopelessness, and psychodrama. It was seen that the institution with the highest number of publications was Istanbul University, and the institution with the highest number of citations was Akdeniz University. Despite the increasing number of randomized controlled studies in Türkiye, an un-even distribution was observed among universities and the overall number of publications and citations remained relatively low compared to the total number of universities. There is a pressing need to identify and address obstacles hindering the production of randomized controlled studies in the field of psychiatric nursing in Türkiye and to provide support for conducting more studies in this area.