1. Materials and Methods
The initial step in completing the bibliometric analysis of the nursing informatics
competencies in nursing literature was compiling a comprehensive list of papers. The
papers were gathered by searching through the online SCOPUS bibliographic database
using the search string “nursing informatic* competenc*” (* being a wild character) in
article title, abstract and keywords. We were interested in all the papers found;
therefore besides defining keywords string, we didn’t set any other inclusion nor
exclusion criteria.