Nursing management and workforce
Leading and sustaining the nursing workforce: staffing, burnout, retention, leadership and work environments. A daily snapshot from 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 nursing management and workforce added to PubMed in each of the last 12 complete months. So far in Nov 2026: 19.
Explore the research
Choose a view. Every view covers the same 3,217 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.
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.
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: 232 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 nursing management and workforce in the period, with the institution given in their most recent article.
| # | Researcher | Institution | Country | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matthew D McHugh ORCID | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 16 |
| 2 | Linda H Aiken ORCID | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 15 |
| 3 | Karen B Lasater ORCID | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 12 |
| 4 | Li Zhang ORCID | West China Hospital of Sichuan University-Ziyang Hospital · Ziyang Central Hospital | China | 11 |
| 5 | Alvisa Palese ORCID | University of Udine | Italy | 11 |
| 6 | Angela Pascale ORCID | — | United States | 10 |
| 7 | Ying Wang ORCID | Fujian Medical University | China | 9 |
| 8 | Yan Zhang ORCID | Central Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University | China | 9 |
| 9 | Ebtsam Aly Abou Hashish ORCID | King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences | Saudi Arabia | 9 |
| 10 | Ibrahim Alasqah ORCID | Qassim University | Saudi Arabia | 8 |
| 11 | Hyunmin Yu ORCID | University of Pennsylvania | United States | 8 |
| 12 | Ahmad Ayed ORCID | Arab American University | Palestine | 8 |
| 13 | Khalid Al-Mugheed ORCID | Riyadh Elm University | Saudi Arabia | 8 |
| 14 | Eileen T Lake ORCID | University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing | United States | 8 |
| 15 | Jing Li ORCID | Capital Medical University | China | 8 |
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 nursing management and workforce 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.
- Artificial Intelligence Technologies Supporting Nurses' Clinical Decision-Making: A Systematic ReviewJ Clin Nurs18 citationsRCR 9.0
- Virtual Nursing for the Care of Hospitalized PatientsJAMA Netw Open13 citationsRCR 8.0
- Caring Amid Complexity: Intensive Care Nurses' Perceptions and Experiences of End-Of-Life Care-A Qualitative StudyNurs Crit Care12 citationsRCR 6.0
- Exploring the Intersection of Nursing Leadership and Artificial Intelligence: Scoping ReviewJMIR Nurs11 citationsRCR 5.9
- Burnout and Compassion Fatigue Among ICU Nurses: A Systematic Review of Predictors, Protective Factors and Workforce Retention InterventionsNurs Crit Care11 citationsRCR 5.5
- Effects of clinical learning environment on the professional identity of Chinese nursing students: multiple mediating effects of learning engagement and stress-related growthBMC Nurs10 citationsRCR 8.3
- Pathway to Excellence Designation, Nurse Work Environment, and Hospital Quality and Safety: A Multi-State Hospital StudyRes Nurs Health10 citationsRCR 5.0
- Key drivers of nurse burnout and work engagement in Europe: A cross-sectional dominance analysisInt J Nurs Stud10 citationsRCR 5.0
- Informing Hospital Physician Well-Being Interventions in Europe and the USJAMA Netw Open10 citationsRCR 4.1
- Promoting evidence-based nursing through collaboration, autonomy, and agency: A qualitative case studyInt J Nurs Sci9 citationsRCR 7.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership and management | 73 | 94 | 61 | 77 | 88 | 76 | 100 | 92 | 94 | 121 | 129 | 130 |
| Burnout, stress and well-being | 78 | 89 | 54 | 67 | 67 | 75 | 72 | 92 | 84 | 86 | 93 | 79 |
| Turnover, retention and shortage | 46 | 47 | 31 | 45 | 53 | 46 | 62 | 64 | 53 | 59 | 74 | 50 |
| Staffing, workload and missed care | 40 | 56 | 31 | 43 | 43 | 45 | 50 | 53 | 68 | 67 | 64 | 67 |
| Quality of care and outcomes | 31 | 29 | 28 | 31 | 32 | 31 | 26 | 36 | 27 | 32 | 29 | 21 |
| Work environment and safety culture | 27 | 28 | 17 | 24 | 21 | 32 | 18 | 27 | 22 | 31 | 28 | 29 |
| Workplace violence and incivility | 7 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 9 |
| Migration and international nurses | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 |
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 match this field in the title. Editorials, comments and letters are left out. Not reviewed by our team, so read each paper critically (see Lesson 5).
- Developing Clinical Supervision Guidelines for Nurse Managers to Support Registered Nurses in LesothoNursing Open · Article · free full text
- Staff experiences of person-centred care and quality of life in nursing homes as influenced by leadership and work situation: a qualitative studyBMC Geriatrics · Article · free full text
- Perceptions of Nurses at a University Hospital regarding Personal Values and LeadershipRevista Brasileira De Enfermagem · Article · free full text
- Acute kidney injury in critically ill older adults: clinical severity and nursing workloadRevista Gaucha De Enfermagem · Article · free full text
- Turnover Intention Among Nurses and Midwives in Obstetrics Departments: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey in JapanCureus · Article · free full text
- Associations of alarm fatigue with occupational burnout and sleep quality in ICU nurses: a cross-sectional studyBMC Nursing · Article · free full text
- Effects of nursing work environment, professional autonomy, and organizational commitment on retention intention among pediatric inpatient unit nurses in South Korea: a descriptive cross-sectional studyChild Health Nursing Research · Article · free full text
- Nurse trainees' perceptions of leadership competencies and personal attributes for future healthcare challenges: Associations with self-efficacy, immigration and socioeconomic backgrounds. An exploratory cross-sectional studyNurse Education Today · 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: ("Nursing Administration Research"[mh] OR "Nursing Staff"[mh] OR "nursing management"[tiab] OR "nurse manager*"[tiab] OR "nurse leader*"[tiab] OR "nursing workforce"[tiab] OR "nurse staffing"[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: (nurs*[ti] AND (staff*[ti] OR burnout[ti] OR turnover[ti] OR leadership[ti] OR manager*[ti] OR workforce[ti] OR workload[ti] OR retention[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).