The Study of Hotspots on Nursing Dissertation Based on Co-Word Analysis in China.

All the doctoral dissertations and master's theses of "nursing" in CNKI database were retrieved to explore the hot spots on nursing research field in China, we processed, visualized the data above, and analyzed those data by using co-word analysis informetrics method. Then, the figure for co-occurrence analysis of high-frequency keywords in dissertation on nursing research were plotted, which represented nine topics and could help health staff to understand hot topics in nursing research field.