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Aim: In the present study, it was aimed to overview the scientific literature on the theme of complementary and supportive therapies in nursing with bibliometric analysis. Methods: In this document review study, the Thomson Reuters' Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database was used to collect research data published in the time period up to the present. The publications containing the keywords “complementary therapies” “supportive therapies” or “aromatherapy” or “music therapy” or “massage” or “hot treatment” or “acupuncture” were searched. The found publications were analyzed with bibliometric analysis in terms of the total number of citations, publication date and country or institution where they are published. Results: : In the study, a total of 15,711 publications were reached as a result of the first search. When the search was narrowed down to the field of nursing, there remained 856 publications. It was found that 562 of those studies were research articles. The first publication was observed to be published in the year of 1973. Examining the increase in publications revealed that the number of publications was less than 10 per year until 1999, but, it was observed to increase after 2005. Conclusion: Although the number of scientific outputs on the theme of supportive and complementary therapy published in journals scanned in WOS is low around the world, it is pleasing that Turkey is in the 2nd place. It is considered that this field should be supported.

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