To explore how bibliometrics can assist nurse academics in providing documented evidence to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC's) revalidation requirements.
The author's publication history was used to demonstrate how nurse academics can use bibliometrics to provide evidence of their continuing professional development (CPD). A standard search using bibliographic software provided data on the author's
Data were identified on the number of articles, the journals in which they were published, and the thematic focus of the author's academic work. Four themes were identified from the co-word analysis: nursing and health policy; global influence and change; regulatory research; and leadership and social network analysis. Comparing these results with the revalidation requirements set by the NMC demonstrated the potential for using bibliometrics as a source of CPD evidence.
Bibliometrics is compatible with the NMC's revalidation requirements and provides a valid means of assisting nurse academics to complete their revalidation portfolios.
Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2017.e10589
Correspondence Peer reviewThis article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software
Received: 16 June 2016
Accepted: 10 November 2016
Published online: 29 August 2017
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