Abstract: Objective To analyze the research hotspot, frontier and future development trends in the field of nursing psychology in the past six years, and provide reference suggestions for the development and application of related research in the field of nursing psychology.Methods Through the CNKI database, using “psychology” as the search term, retrieve the papers published in ten core nursing journals from 2015 to 2020, and use the CiteSpace visualization software to perform metrological analysis of authors, institutions, and keywords.Results A total of 2 341 papers on nursing psychology published in ten core nursing journals from 2015 to 2020 were included.The number of papers published in the past 6 years has shown a slight fluctuation trend.The publishing organizations are relatively concentrated, mostly from major universities, and there is little cooperation between authors.Key words such as qualitative research,quality of life, influencing factors, and have been the research hotspots of nursing psychology in the past six years, and ICU Nurses,psychological distress,psychological perplexity and mediation effect are the research frontiers.Conclusion Visualized analysis of nursing psychology papers published in core nursing journals in the past six years can help us to understand the research hotspot and frontier trends of nursing psychology related research, and promote the further development of nursing psychology research in teaching, clinical, and management levels.

Key words: psychological nursing, CiteSpace, bibliometrics, core journal

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