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Abstract Aim: Sleep is an important phenemon of nursing practices. This study set to present a general overview of sleep publication in nursing research using bibliometric indicators. Design: This study was a bibliometric analysis. Methods:The global literatures about sleep in nursing research published were scanned in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database. “Sleep” and “nursing” was used as the keyword to reach the relevant publications. VOSviewer was applied to perform the bibliometric analysis of these articles. Results: A total of 2627 publications on sleep education were included. Most of the papers were research articles (2.320, 88.3%) and highest number of publications was in 2022 (247, 9.4%). The most common publication language was English (2.511; 95.6%). For the last five years, between 1133 publications have been made about sleep. The most three used keywords were “sleep,” “nurses,” and “fatigue”. The journal with the highest number of publications was Journal of Clınıcal Nursing (n=177, 6.8%). The journal most cited was Journal of Advanced Nursing (n=172, 6.5%). The most cited paper was " Advancing the science of symptom management " made by Dodd. in 2001 (648, total link= 30). In total, 1,777 authors published included papers. Ceolim MF was the most prolific authors with 23 publications (Universidade Estadual de Campinas). The United States is the country with the most publication (n=1.026, 39.5%). Conclusions: This bibliometric study revealed the research points and trends in the field of sleep in nursing research. The study presented sleep researchers with the topics that attract attention for new research, the authors and countries that publish the most, and the journals that publish sleep articles most frequently.
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