Nursing research and evidence-based practice
Research about how nurses do, use and implement research: evidence-based practice, implementation science, methods and research capacity. 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 research and evidence-based practice added to PubMed in each of the last 12 complete months. So far in Nov 2026: 7.
Explore the research
Choose a view. Every view covers the same 1,697 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: 53 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 research and evidence-based practice in the period, with the institution given in their most recent article.
| # | Researcher | Institution | Country | Articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kate Curtis ORCID | The University of Sydney Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery | Australia | 7 |
| 2 | Dhurata Ivziku ORCID | Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico | Kosovo | 7 |
| 3 | Kerry A Milner | Kerry A. Milner is an adjunct professor in the Davis and Henley College of Nursing at Sacr | — | 6 |
| 4 | Ellen Fineout-Overholt | — | — | 6 |
| 5 | Julie Considine ORCID | Deakin University | Australia | 6 |
| 6 | Ramon Z Shaban ORCID | The University of Sydney Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery | Australia | 6 |
| 7 | Rahel Naef ORCID | University of Zurich | Switzerland | 6 |
| 8 | Susan Farus-Brown | Susan Farus-Brown is an associate professor at the Ohio University School of Nursing in At | — | 5 |
| 9 | Mary C Zonsius | Mary C. Zonsius is an associate professor at the Rush University College of Nursing in Chi | — | 5 |
| 10 | Abdulqadir J Nashwan ORCID | — | Qatar | 5 |
| 11 | Seçil Taylan ORCID | Akdeniz University | Türkiye | 5 |
| 12 | Jude Ominyi ORCID | University of Suffolk | United Kingdom | 5 |
| 13 | Ying Li | The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University | China | 5 |
| 14 | Yingchun Zeng ORCID | National University of Singapore | China | 5 |
| 15 | Ahtisham Younas ORCID | Memorial University of Newfoundland | Canada | 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 nursing research and evidence-based practice 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.
- Promoting evidence-based nursing through collaboration, autonomy, and agency: A qualitative case studyInt J Nurs Sci9 citationsRCR 7.8
- Consequences of moral distress among critical care nursing: an integrative reviewJ Res Nurs7 citationsRCR 6.9
- Applying Hybrid Coding and Reflexivity in Qualitative Content Analysis: An ExemplarGlob Qual Nurs Res6 citationsRCR 3.9
- Implementation science research in the intensive care unit: a scoping reviewBMJ Open6 citationsRCR 3.1
- The Relationship Between Stress of Conscience and Quiet Quitting in Nurses: The Mediating Role of Compassion FatigueHealthcare (Basel)6 citationsRCR 3.0
- Best Practice Guideline Development Methods: An Integrated Approach Based on the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario's MethodsClin Public Health Guidel5 citationsRCR 4.2
- Systematic review of sensory-based interventions for children and youth (2015-2024)Front Pediatr5 citationsRCR 2.9
- Integrating AI-based triage in primary care: a qualitative study of Swedish healthcare professionals' experiences applying normalization process theoryBMC Prim Care5 citationsRCR 2.8
- Preferred reporting items for concept analysis in nursing: a systematic reviewJ Res Nurs5 citationsRCR 2.5
- The implementation of a noise reduction bundle in the intensive care unit: A qualitative process evaluationIntensive Crit Care Nurs5 citationsRCR 2.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualitative and mixed methods | 32 | 32 | 36 | 34 | 46 | 31 | 37 | 41 | 50 | 42 | 27 | 27 |
| Implementation science and knowledge translation | 22 | 30 | 36 | 22 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 41 | 37 | 41 | 38 | 28 |
| Evidence-based practice: competence and attitudes | 20 | 25 | 20 | 19 | 27 | 24 | 25 | 41 | 31 | 28 | 24 | 16 |
| Ethics, integrity and patient involvement | 7 | 15 | 13 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 18 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 13 |
| Systematic and scoping reviews | 19 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 18 | 23 | 15 | 8 |
| AI and digital tools in research | 9 | 9 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 20 | 11 | 6 |
| Research capacity and nurse researchers | 9 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 5 |
| Instrument development and psychometrics | 7 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
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).
- Targeted Support for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Research Funding Within an Acute UK NHS Trust: A Brief ReportNursing Open · Article · free full text
- Clinical preceptor competencies in nurse practitioner education: A scoping review and framework mappingNurse Education in Practice · Article · free full text
- Global Landscape of Telehealth Interventions for Type 2 Diabetes Self-Care: A Scoping Review of Nursing Roles, Care Models, and OutcomesPatient Preference and Adherence · Review · free full text
- Implementation of a Preoperative Nursing Consultation in Elective Paediatric Surgery: An Implementation Science PerspectiveNursing Open · Review · free full text
- Nursing health promotion interventions in the management of rheumatoid arthritis: A scoping reviewReumatologia Clinica · Review · free full text
- From Academic Integrity to Professional Formation in Generative AI-Supported Nursing Education: Integrative ReviewJMIR Nursing · Review · free full text
- Experiences of Registered Nurses involved in regulatory disciplinary processes: Scoping review protocolPloS One · Article · free full text
- Methodological lineages of concept analysis and mapping of reporting elements in nursing and health-related disciplines: A scoping review protocolPloS One · 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 Research"[mh] OR "Evidence-Based Nursing"[mh] OR "nursing research"[tiab] OR "evidence-based practice"[tiab] OR "research utilization"[tiab] OR "implementation science"[tiab]) AND (nurs*[tiab] OR nursing[mh])). “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 ("evidence-based"[ti] OR research[ti] OR implementation[ti] OR review[ti] OR methodolog*[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).