Research process with emphasis on the concept of educational management in the field of nursing: A scientometric study

Nursing is one of the most important fields in medical sciences, and its development has a great impact on health cares. Since one of the indicators of the development of any field or profession is its scientific studies; therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate scientific researches with emphasis on the concept of educational management in the field of nursing.

This study was conducted using a mapping method, and the scientometric analysis was performed on 2962 articles via collecting data from the Web of Science (WoS) from 2000 to 2019. The existing conceptual structure and patterns in the field of educational management researches as well as the interpretation of the relationship among the keywords used in the researches were extracted and analyzed using VOSviewer.

Analysis of data obtained from WoS indicated that in the field of educational management, the number of articles had increasing trend from 2000 to 2019, indicating the interest of researchers in educational management in the field of nursing. The most cited journals were belonged to the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as to the universities of Trento, Dalhousie and Queen Mary University of London, respectively. The most international collaborations were found in publishing the high-quality articles among the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Iran and Canada. In the treasury of keywords presenting in the title and abstract of articles related to educational management, through overviewing the data obtained from scientometric mapping, it could be observed that the word “knowledge” had the most usage among the words associated with the concept of management, educational management, nursing and education.

Based on the presented data, it can be found that firstly, the attention to the concept of educational management in the field of nursing has enhanced over time. Secondly, the concept of educational management is more integrated with mental concepts, representing the need to pay attention to mental and linguistic concepts and approaches in educational management research.