Question

1. Select a nursing journal that deals primarily with education, research, or administration (e.g., Journal of Nursing Education, Nursing Research, Journal of Nursing Administration), and review issues from the past 3 years to analyze trends. What are the “hot topics”? Can any predictions be made for future issues?

Answer 1

Journal of research in nursing

This journal is an important UK journal which was started in the year 1995 and it still runs. This journal is published by SAGE, in this journal, research is published with the aim of encouraging evidence-based practice and improving the quality of patient care.

Trends:

This journal is divided into three main headings

a. Nursing research

b. Research methods

c. Study skills for nurses

The details of trends under each subdivision are given as below
Nursing research	Research methods	Study skills for nurses
Textbook (47) Student Reference (12) Academic Book (8) Journal (8) Professional Book (1) Reference Book (1)	Textbook (7) Journal (4) Academic Book (1)	Textbook (12) Student Reference (9) Journal (1)
Published (66) New titles (4) Forthcoming (3)	Published (7) Forthcoming (1)	Published (21)
Hot topics which are discussed are: 1. Doing a Literature Review in Nursing, Health and Social Care 2. Researching Health: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods,	Hot topics which are discussed are: 1. Writing Research Proposals in the Health Sciences 2. Health Intervention Research	Hot topics which are discussed are: 1. Critical Thinking and Writing in Nursing 2. Reflective Practice in Nursing
Forthcomings are 1. Making Sense of Research in Nursing, Health and Social Care	Forthcomings are 1. Making Sense of Research in Nursing, Health and Social Care	Forthcomings are nill

The H index of this journal is 28 and the graph of the journal from past 3 years shows incredible improvement of its H index, citations per document have also gone up, and further seen that international collaborations have also gone up significantly citable documents are increasing every year.

Prediction for future publications would be in regard to global pandemic, mark of 100 years of nursing, and nursing in its collective form