title: Nursing informatics competencies: bibliometric analysis.
abstract: Information and communication technology is developing rapidly and it is incorporated in many health care processes, but in spite of that fact we can still notice that nursing informatics competencies had received limited attention in basic nursing education curricula in Europe and especially in Eastern European countries. The purpose of the present paper is to present the results of a bibliometric analysis of the nursing informatics competencies scientific literature production. We applied the bibliometrics analysis to the corpus of 332 papers found in SCOPUS, related to nursing informatics competencies. The results showed that there is a positive trend in the number of published papers per year, indicating the increased research interest in nursing informatics competencies. Despite the fact that the first paper was published in Denmark, the most prolific country regarding the research in nursing informatics competencies is United States as are their institutions and authors.
authors.affiliation: Univerity of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kokol
authors.affiliation: Univerity of Maribor, Center for International Cooperation, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Blažun
authors.affiliation: Univerity of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Maribor, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Janez
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vošner
authors.affiliation: University of Eastern Finland, Department of Health and Social Management, Kuopio, Finland.
authors.forename: Kaija
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saranto
mesh_terms: D001292:Attitude to Computers; D015706:Bibliometrics; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003197:Computer Literacy / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*