Suicide publications from nursing perspective: A bibliometric analysis from 1982 to 2023

This study aims to demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative features of suicide publications in the field of nursing from a bibliometric perspective.

Descriptive study.

Web of Science was used during the research. The data were searched with the keyword combination "suicide and nursing," including studies published until March 2023, the study date, without a time limit.

In this study, 1608 suicide research/reviews in the field of nursing were identified between 1982 and 2023, and the research was completed with 1274 suicide studies in line with the exclusion criteria. 3374 authors wrote 1173 research and 101 review/systematic review articles, with an average of 13.31 citations for each publication. Most were published in 2021.

Nurses seem to begin to take a more active part in suicide studies. It may be recommended that nurses conduct more studies to determine suicide processes and biopsychosocially and ethically appropriate approaches to patients/healthy individuals.