Dong, Jianyu

Aims: To explore the intellectual landscape of care‐giving studies and identify research trends and hotspots in this field. Design: A bibliometric and scientometric analysis of care‐giving literature was undertaken from January ‐ February 2020. Methods: CiteSpace was used to analyse research published between 1900 ‐ 2019. A references‐based co‐citation analysis was used to identify the intellectual landscape of care‐giving research.