The development of modern nursing and consequently nursing research in Ex- Yugoslavia is about a century old. To profile the development, volume, and content of nursing research we completed a performance and spatial bibliometric analysis combined with synthetic content analysis to identify the most productive countries and institutions, most prolific source titles, country cooperation, publication production trends, the content of research and hot topics. The corpus was harvested from the Web of Science All databases and contained 1380 papers. Slovenia was the most productive country, followed by Croatia and Serbia. The synthetic content analysis demonstrated that nursing research in ex-Yugoslavian countries is growing both in scope and number of publications, notwithstanding the fact that research content differs between countries and it seems that each country is focused on their local health problems. A substantial part of the research is published in national journals in national languages however, it is noteworthy to note that some ex-Yugoslavian authors have succeeded in publishing their research in top nursing journals. The study also revealed substantial international cooperation especially among ex-Yugoslavian countries and European Union.

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前南斯拉夫国家护理研究的文献计量学概况

前南斯拉夫现代护理和护理研究的发展已有大约一个世纪的历史。为了描述护理研究的发展、数量和内容，我们完成了性能和空间文献计量分析，并结合综合内容分析来确定生产力最高的国家和机构、最多产的来源标题、国家合作、出版生产趋势、研究内容和热门话题。该语料库来自 Web of Science All 数据库，包含 1380 篇论文。斯洛文尼亚是生产力最高的国家，其次是克罗地亚和塞尔维亚。综合内容分析表明，前南斯拉夫国家的护理研究在范围和出版物数量上都在增长，尽管研究内容因国家而异，而且似乎每个国家都专注于当地的健康问题。大部分研究以国家语言发表在国家期刊上，但值得注意的是，一些前南斯拉夫作者已成功在顶级护理期刊上发表他们的研究。该研究还揭示了大量的国际合作，特别是前南斯拉夫国家和欧盟之间的合作。