Análise da produção científica da Enfermagem e seus leitores no Mendeley

The research aimed to determine who are the largest producers of scientific papers in Nursing at the country level and to identify the profile of readers in Mendeley, their origin, academic or professional qualification and field of study or work. The study used descriptive and statistical methods for bibliometric and altmetric analysis of 72,040 papers published in journals indexed in the field of Nursing on the Web of Science between 2008 and 2017. The papers were published by authors from 150 countries, of which 20 hold 90.5% of total output. The United States sign 46.03% of nursing papers, followed by Australia (9.25%), United Kingdom (7.52%), Brazil (7.52%) and Canada (5.29%). The countries with the great volume of readers in Mendeley are the United States (19.53%), the United Kingdom (16.83%), Spain (11.20%), Canada (9.31%) and Brazil (4.97%). The readers predominant academic status is that of students (61.2%), especially graduate students, followed by researchers (10.7%) and professors (6.2%). The majority of readers are from “Science and Technology: Life Sciences and Biomedicine” (56.2%). The research concludes that the countries that publish more Nursing papers are also the ones that have the biggest volume of readers in Mendeley. Keywords: Mendeley. Altmetrics. Nursing. Bibliometrics. Social media.