[Coincidence analysis of keywords of the Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing with MeSH].
OBJECTIVE
We try to disclose how much the keywords of the papers from the Journal of the Korean Academy of Nursing coincide with MeSH terminologies and to understand the major subjects of the recent nursing research in Korea from keywords.


METHODS
Keywords of journals were extracted and compared with MeSH terms. The frequency of the appearance of each keyword was sorted by a descending order.


RESULTS
Coincidence rate of 1,235 keywords with MeSH terms was 51.6%. Out of them, depression, elderly, stress, self efficacy, quality of life, exercise, middle-aged women, and women appeared most frequently in descending order.


CONCLUSIONS
Coincidence rate of the keywords with MeSH terms was at an acceptable level, however to improve it, the education of submitters and editorial board members are required, as well as the copy editor, to take a role in checking keywords. To infer the subjects of the research from keywords might well represent the recent topics of research work.
Jeong
Geum-Hee
GH
Division of Nursing, Hallym Univesity, Gangwon-do, Korea. ghjeong@hallym.ac.kr
Ahn
Young-Mee
YM
Cho
Dong-Sook
DS
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D007723:Korea; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D009729:Nursing; D010506:Periodicals as Topic