[Analysis of scientific production of nurses from Minas Gerais published in nursing journals]

This is a descriptive, exploratory and retrospective study on the scientific production by nurses from Minas Gerais in BDENF Nursing journals from 1989 to 1998. The main objective was to characterize the scientific production by nurses from Minas Gerais published in the national nursing journals which comprise the BDENF. The names of 5.613 nurses from the records of COREn/MG were included in the database in order to find authors and their writings. Fifty-four authors and 87 writings were found with an average of 1.6 writings per author. The authors and co-authors who produce and publish are university professors working in collaboration with their peers.