| Publication year | 2018 | 37 (12.9) |
| 2019 | 62 (21.8) |
| 2020 | 60 (21.0) |
| 2021 | 57 (20.0) |
| 2022 | 69 (24.2) |
| Publication journals | Domestic | 214 (75.1) |
| Abroad | 71 (24.9) |
| Research designs | Quantitative | 143 (50.2) |
| Descriptive study | 103 (36.1) |
| Retrospective study | 36 (12.6) |
| Intervention study | 4 (1.4) |
| Qualitative | 14 (4.9) |
| Qualitative study | 13 (4.5) |
| Q-methodology study | 1 (0.4) |
| Review | 118 (41.4) |
| Others | 10 (3.5) |
| Triangulation study | 5 (1.8) |
| Instrument development research | 3 (1.0) |
| Dephi study | 2 (0.7) |
| Types of publication journals | Health Science | 164 (57.5) |
| Nursing | 97 (34.0) |
| Medicine | 60 (21.0) |
| Public health | 6 (2.1) |
| Pharmacy | 1 (0.4) |
| Ethical jurisprudence science | 121 (42.5) |
| Law | 74 (26.0) |
| Ethics | 24 (8.4) |
| Social sciences | 12 (4.2) |
| Administration | 7 (2.5) |
| Convergence | 4 (1.4) |
| Subjects* | Patients | 45 (27.0) |
| Cancer patients | 17 (10.2) |
| Non-cancerous patients | 12 (7.3) |
| Mixed | 16 (9.5) |
| Adult | 34 (20.4) |
| Elderly | 22 (13.2) |
| Adult & pre-elderly | 12 (7.2) |
| College students | 30 (17.9) |
| Nursing student | 21 (7.3) |
| Others | 9 (10.6) |
| Nurses | 26 (15.6) |
| Doctors | 6 (3.6) |
| Others | 26 (15.5) |