Global Trends in Nursing Interventions for Adolescent Bullying: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Background: Bullying among adolescents is a major public health problem with significant consequences for mental health, well-being, and educational functioning. Purpose: To map global publication trends, authorship and affiliation patterns, document types, subject areas, and thematic developments in research on nursing interventions for adolescent bullying, and to identify their potential implications for nursing practice. Methods: A bibliometric analysis was conducted using Scopus-indexed publications from 2006 to 2025 without language restrictions. VOSviewer was used to generate keyword co-occurrence, overlay, and density visualizations, while descriptive analysis was applied to publication trends, document types, subject areas, affiliations, and country contributions. Results: A total of 54 publications were included in the analysis. Journal articles accounted for 88.9% of the corpus, followed by reviews (5.6%), notes (3.7%), and letters (1.9%). Nursing was the dominant subject area (64.5%), followed by Medicine (19.4%), Psychology (4.8%), and Social Sciences (3.2%). The United States contributed the largest number of publications (n = 14), followed by Brazil and Indonesia (n = 6 each), and Japan (n = 5). Publication output remained low and fluctuating in the early years, but increased in the later period, reaching a peak of 10 publications in 2025. Keyword mapping identified adolescent, nurse, bullying, education, mental health, and cyberbullying as central themes. Overlay visualization suggested a thematic shift from prevalence- and perception-oriented topics toward educational, psychosocial, and practicerelated themes, while density visualization highlighted hotspots around education, bullying, clinical experience, and mental health. Conclusion: The bibliometric profile indicates that research on nursing interventions for adolescent bullying is multidisciplinary and has increasingly focused on educational, psychosocial, and practice-related themes. These findings may help inform future research priorities and the development of nursing strategies for bullying prevention and management among adolescents. Implications for Nursing: Nurses play an important role in bullying prevention, psychosocial support, and early identification of adolescents affected by bullying and cyberbullying. The findings support the integration of mental health promotion, emotional literacy, and bullying awareness into nursing practice and education. Keywords: Adolescents, Bullying, Nursing education, Nursing interventions.