AI in nursing research, month by month
A daily snapshot of research on AI and nursing in PubMed: how much is published, on what, by whom and where. Statistics are updated on the first of each month (last: 1 November 2026); the newest free articles every day (last: 2 November 2026).
New articles each month
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Articles on AI and nursing added to PubMed in each of the last 12 complete months. So far in Nov 2026: 6.
Explore the research
Choose a view. Every view covers the same 1,940 articles, November 2025 to October 2026.
What the research is about
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Main subject of the articles, grouped from a nursing-research point of view.
An article can count in more than one topic, so the percentages add up to more than 100.
Which kind of AI is studied
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Generative AI (chatbots and large language models), classic machine learning, or language processing.
Some articles study more than one kind of AI, and some do not say.
How the studies were done
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026The research design, matched on words in the title or abstract and on PubMed publication types.
Approximate: an article may match more than one design, and some match none.
Specialties and patient groups
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Clinical areas and populations mentioned in the title or abstract.
An article can count in more than one specialty.
Where the authors are
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Articles with at least one author address in each country (top 15).
Gulf (GCC) countries together: 120 articles. An article with authors in several countries counts for each.
Oman, the Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Articles with an author in each of the 22 countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region. Countries with no articles are not shown.
GCC: Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain. By author address.
International collaboration
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026How often authors from different countries write together, worked out from every author address in PubMed.
Countries most often in international teams
Counts in the list are international articles that include the country.
Most active researchers
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Authors with the most articles on AI and nursing in the period, with the institution given in their most recent article.
| # | Researcher | Institution | Country | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qin Zeng ORCID | West China Second University Hospital | China | 10 |
| 2 | Yingchun Zeng ORCID | National University of Singapore | Singapore | 9 |
| 3 | Tuba Sengul ORCID | Koç University School of Nursing | Türkiye | 7 |
| 4 | Jiacheng Hu ORCID | Sichuan University | China | 7 |
| 5 | Sameer A Alkubati ORCID | University of Ha'il | Saudi Arabia | 7 |
| 6 | Kazumi Kubota ORCID | — | Japan | 7 |
| 7 | Maxim Topaz ORCID | Columbia University | United States | 6 |
| 8 | Dilek Yilmaz Akyaz ORCID | Koç University | Türkiye | 5 |
| 9 | Jennie C De Gagne ORCID | Duke University School of Nursing | United States | 5 |
| 10 | Wei Hu ORCID | The fifth affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University | China | 5 |
| 11 | Holly Kirkland-Kyhn ORCID | University of California | United States | 5 |
| 12 | Chaoran Chen ORCID | The First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University | China | 5 |
| 13 | Ping Zhang ORCID | Nantong Fourth People's Hospital | China | 5 |
| 14 | Moustaq Karim Khan Rony ORCID | International University of Business Agriculture and Technology | Bangladesh | 5 |
| 15 | Jun Zhu | West China Second University Hospital | China | 5 |
Counted from author names in PubMed. Two people with the same name can be merged, and one person who writes their name in different ways can be split; an ORCID link appears when the article gives one. Article counts measure activity, not quality.
Most active universities and institutions
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Institutions named in author addresses on the most articles in the period.
Matched on the institution name as written in addresses, so the same university written in different ways may be split.
Journals publishing the most
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026The 12 journals with the most articles on AI and nursing in the period.
Most-cited articles of the period
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026The 10 articles from the period that other PubMed articles have cited most so far.
- AI literacy and competency in nursing education: preparing students and faculty members for an AI-enabled future-a systematic review and meta-analysisFront Med (Lausanne)34 citationsRCR 19.6
- Nurses' attitudes toward artificial intelligence: AI literacy as a predictor and the mediating effect of AI anxietyBMC Nurs23 citationsRCR 13.7
- Bridging the AI-Literacy Gap in Health Care: Qualitative Analysis of the Flanders Case StudyJ Med Internet Res19 citationsRCR 8.9
- Artificial Intelligence Technologies Supporting Nurses' Clinical Decision-Making: A Systematic ReviewJ Clin Nurs18 citationsRCR 9.0
- Generative AI at the Bedside: An Integrative Review of Applications and Implications in Clinical Nursing PracticeJ Clin Nurs15 citationsRCR 8.2
- Applications, attitudes and ethical considerations of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) in nursing education: a scoping reviewBMC Nurs14 citationsRCR 7.0
- Transforming Nursing Education with Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Review (2010-2025)SAGE Open Nurs13 citationsRCR 6.5
- Impact of AI recommendation correctness on diagnostic accuracy in clinical decision-makingInt J Med Inform13 citationsRCR 6.5
- Detecting Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis With Artificial Intelligence: A Nonrandomized Clinical TrialJAMA Cardiol13 citationsRCR 6.5
- Nursing students' artificial intelligence (AI) literacy, AI self-efficacy and AI self-competency: A cross-sectional design and structural equation model analysisNurse Educ Pract12 citationsRCR 6.0
Citations: how many PubMed articles have cited it (NIH iCite). RCR (Relative Citation Ratio): citations compared with other articles in the same field and year. 1.0 is average; 2.0 means cited twice as much as usual. New articles have had little time to be cited, so this list changes quickly.
How each topic changed, month by month
PubMed · November 2025 to October 2026 · updated monthly, last on 1 November 2026Number of new articles each month. Choose up to four topics or types of AI to compare. Point at a dot to see the exact number.
Show all numbers as a table
| Topic | Nov 2025 | Dec | Jan 2026 | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethics, privacy and governance | 43 | 37 | 37 | 51 | 67 | 47 | 64 | 85 | 78 | 90 | 86 | 57 |
| Clinical decision support and prediction | 27 | 39 | 34 | 61 | 47 | 47 | 59 | 70 | 70 | 63 | 66 | 62 |
| Nursing education and students | 33 | 45 | 46 | 51 | 55 | 48 | 53 | 64 | 66 | 71 | 52 | 51 |
| Generative AI and large language models | 33 | 36 | 30 | 26 | 42 | 38 | 44 | 58 | 57 | 62 | 55 | 51 |
| Machine learning and prediction models | 27 | 37 | 27 | 37 | 29 | 39 | 41 | 41 | 47 | 41 | 37 | 46 |
| Workforce, management and documentation | 20 | 17 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 27 | 38 | 34 | 37 | 57 | 37 | 36 |
| Patient-facing tools and self-care | 11 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 24 | 12 | 12 | 17 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 15 |
| Robots and smart devices | 10 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 18 | 15 |
| Natural language processing | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 |
Newest free articles
Updated daily · last on 2 November 2026Listed automatically each day from PubMed records added in the last 14 days that are free to read and mention both AI and nursing in the title. Editorials, comments and letters are left out. Not reviewed by our team, so read each paper critically (see Lesson 5).
- Clinical Decision-Making Among Community Nurses: A Comparative Human and Generative AI-Assisted Qualitative AnalysisNursing Open · Article · free full text
- The Effect of Using ChatGPT on Nursing Students' Learning and Satisfaction in a Flipped Physiology ClassroomAdvances in Medical Education and Practice · Article · free full text
- Artificial intelligence-enabled nursing surveillance for pediatric cancer immunotherapy: integrating biomarkers, patient-reported outcomes, and long-term toxicity managementFrontiers in Medicine · Review · free full text
- From Academic Integrity to Professional Formation in Generative AI-Supported Nursing Education: Integrative ReviewJMIR Nursing · Review · free full text
- From fear to fun: leveraging AI-powered videos in nursing education for disaster preparednessBMC Nursing · Article · free full text
- AI-Enabled Patient Profiling for Personalized Nursing Care and Health Support: Scoping ReviewJournal of Medical Internet Research · Review · free full text
- Moral Distress, Moral Resilience, and Organizational Factors in Predicting Consideration of Leaving Among Nurses Working in Infectious Isolation Wards: A Logistic and Machine-Learning AnalysisJournal of Nursing Management · Article · free full text
- Artificial intelligence attitudes, presenteeism, and work engagement among nurses: a structural equation modeling approachFrontiers in Psychology · Article · free full text
Terms used on this page
- Added to PubMed
- The date an article record entered PubMed. We count by this date so each article is counted once, in one month.
- Free full text
- PubMed links to a version you can read without paying.
- Citations
- How many articles in PubMed have cited this article (from NIH iCite).
- RCR (Relative Citation Ratio)
- An NIH measure that compares an article’s citations with others in the same field and year. 1.0 is average; above 1.0 means it is cited more than usual.
- International collaboration
- An article whose authors give addresses in two or more countries.
- GCC
- Gulf Cooperation Council: Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.
- Eastern Mediterranean Region
- One of WHO’s six regions: 22 countries from Morocco to Pakistan, including Iran and the Gulf states.
How we count
Source: PubMed. Statistics are recalculated on the first day of each month (last 1 November 2026); the newest-article list and the 7-day count every day (last 2 November 2026). Counts are by the date each record was added to PubMed. Main search: ("Artificial Intelligence"[MeSH] OR "artificial intelligence"[tiab] OR "machine learning"[tiab] OR "deep learning"[tiab] OR "large language model*"[tiab] OR ChatGPT[tiab] OR "generative AI"[tiab]) AND (nursing[mh] OR nurse*[tiab] OR nursing[tiab]). “Free full text” uses PubMed’s free full text filter. Topics, types of AI, designs and specialties use extra search terms in the title or abstract. Countries use author addresses; the collaboration share reads every author address in each record. Journals are counted from every record in the period. Citations and RCR come from NIH iCite. The article list uses a stricter search in the title: ("artificial intelligence"[ti] OR "machine learning"[ti] OR "deep learning"[ti] OR "large language model*"[ti] OR ChatGPT[ti] OR "generative AI"[ti] OR AI[ti]) AND (nurs*[ti] OR midwi*[ti]). Counts are approximate: the main search also catches articles that mention nurses and AI without being mainly about either, and recent months grow a little as PubMed adds records. PubMed does not cover every nursing journal (CINAHL is not free).