Objective
To provide a synopsis of the occupational licensure literature and how scholarship
contributions (i.e., research, reviews, book chapters, conference proceedings, editorials,
and other) compare across the five largest contributory disciplines indexed in the
Web of Science™ (WOS) bibliographic database.
Methods
Data were extracted in May 2019 from the WOS (Clarivate Analytics) bibliographic database
and analyzed using Histcite and VosViewer. Bibliographic information was identified
using a standard keyword and Boolean operator search and was downloaded into a plain
text ANSI file from WOS.
Results
A total of 507 pieces of content were identified. The top five contributing disciplines
were nursing (68), law (68), economics (59), education (35), and medicine (34). The
first item indexed appeared in 1931, and for the next 40 years, a handful of content
items were published sporadically. Between 1971 to 2005, scholarship on occupational
licensure was initiated consistently with small numbers of articles being authored
each year. Between 2005 and May 2019, there was a rapid growth in scholarship.
Conclusions
Differences in the focus and volume of published content were observed, with nursing,
law, and economics being the most prolific disciplines. The findings of this study
add weight to the call for the nursing profession to be more actively involved in
policy discussions, as they have far greater potential to bring evidence to the decision-making
table.
Keywords
To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessOne-time access price info
- For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
- For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'
Subscribe:
Subscribe to Journal of Nursing RegulationAlready a print subscriber? Claim online access
Already an online subscriber? Sign in
Register: Create an account
Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect
References
- Collaborations: The fourth age of research.Nature. 2013; 497: 557-560
- Bilateral and multilateral coauthorship and citation impact: Patterns in UK and US international collaboration.Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. 2018; 3: 12
- Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science.Biomedical Digital Libraries. 2006; 3: 7
- Analysis and priorities: Developing a modern, effective, regulatory framework.Journal of Nursing Regulation. 2017; 8: S44-S50
- Bibliometric review: Identifying evolving and emergent regulatory trends.Journal of Nursing Regulation. 2017; 8: S5-S14
- Nursing Now! Learning from the past, positioning for the future.OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing. 2019; 24: 6
- Bibliometrics: A means of visualizing occupational licensure scholarship.Journal of Nursing Regulation. 2018; 9: 31-37
- Acting in the public interest: Learnings and commentary on the occupational licensure literature.Journal of Nursing Regulation. 2019; 10: S1-S40
- A typology of professional nurse regulatory models and their administration.Journal of Nursing Regulation. 2013; 4: 22-29
- How the nursing profession can contribute to sustainable development goals.Nursing Management. 2016; 23: 29-34
- Human Resources for Health 2030 and the regulatory agenda: Guest editorial.Journal of Nursing Management. 2016; 24: 705-707
- A comparison between two main academic literature collections: Web of Science and Scopus Databases.Asian Social Science. 2013; 9: 18-26
- Bibliometrics and citation analysis: From the Science Citation Index to cybernetics.The Scarecrow Press, Inc, Lantham, MD2009
- Coverage of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science: A case study of the h-index in nursing.Nursing Outlook. 2012; 60: 391-400
- Legal phases of professional regulation.Journal of Accountancy. 1931; 52: 360-372
- Stochastic block model reveals maps of citation patterns and evolution in time.Journal of Informetrics. 2018; 12: 757-783
- Journal bibliometric indicators and citation ethics: A discussion of current issues.Atherosclerosis. 2013; 230: 275-277
- Licensing Occupations: Ensuring quality or restricting competition?.W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI2006
- International collaboration in science and the formation of a core group.Journal of Informetrics. 2008; 2: 317-325
- Citation analysis: Comparison of Web of Science, Scopus, SciFinder, and Google Scholar.Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries. 2010; 7: 196-217
- Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: A systematic comparison of citations in 252 subject categories.Journal of Informetrics. 2018; 12: 1160-1177
- The journal coverage of Web of Science and Scopus: A comparative analysis.Scientometrics. 2016; 106: 213-228
- Compendium of bibliometric science indicators.Author, Paris, France2016
- Strategic directions for nursing in the region of the Americas.Author, Washington, DC2019
- The increased development of the number of journals with impact factors in nursing.Kontakt. 2015; 17: e133-e137
- Impact factors in nursing journals.Nursing Outlook. 2011; 59: 18-28
- Coverage and quality: A comparison of Web of Science and Scopus databases for reporting faculty nursing publication metrics.Nursing Outlook. 2017; 65: 572-578
- Bibliometric awareness in nursing scholarship: can we afford to ignore it any longer?.Nursing and Health Sciences. 2011; 13: 287-384
- The role of English in scientific communication: “Lingua Franca” or “Tyrannosaurus Rex”?.Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 2004; 3: 247-269
- Transforming our world: The 2030 agenda for sustainable development.Author, New York, NY2015
- Mapping research topics using word-reference co-occurrences: A method and an exploratory case study.Scientometrics. 2006; 63: 377-393
- Visualizing bibliometric networks.in: Ding Y. Rousseau R. Wolfman D. Measuring scholarly impact: Methods and practice. Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY2014
- Global strategy on human resources for health: Workforce 2030.Author, Geneva, Switzerland2016
- Framework for action: Strengthening quality midwifery education for universal health coverage.Author, Geneva, Switzerland2019
Biography
David C. Benton, PhD, RN, FRCN, FAAN, is Chief Executive Officer, National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois.
Biography
Andrew D. Benton, MSc, CSP, APA, is Clinical Physiotherapist, Pure Physio, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Biography
Máximo A. González-Jurado, PhD, RN, is President Emeritus, Consejo General de Enfermería de España, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Biography
Mercedes Gómez Del Pulgar, PhD, RN, is Derectora General, Instituto Español de Investigacion Enfermería, Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Article info
Identification
Copyright
© 2019 National Council of State Boards of Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ScienceDirect
Access this article on ScienceDirectLinked Article
- Conflict of Interest Compliance Article 3Journal of Nursing Regulation Vol. 12Issue 2
- PreviewAs is standard in scholarly publishing, NCSBN’s Journal of Nursing Regulation (JNR) requires its authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest (COI). Although COI information has always been collected by our staff in order to support editors’ review of the paper, it was not our standard practice to publish COI statements in each article. In this issue, JNR is retrospectively publishing the COI statements, which were collected with the below papers at submission, in order to make potential COI’s transparent to readers, as well as editors.
- Full-Text
- Preview
