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The purpose of this study is to investigate the number of English nursing articles written and published in Japan and to realize the needs of English literacy among nursing scholars. The data were first searched based on nursing literature indices entitled Saishin kango sakuin from 1999 to 2003, and collected to confirm authors, language, and the type of the articles. As a result, in 2000 while the number of nursing graduate schools was gradually increasing, the largest number of English research articles seemed to be published. Also most of the journals in which English articles were published were in-house journals of each university and the ones published by each academic organization. Most notably, in five years from 1999 to 2003, the range of research themes was expanded greatly, which suggests the development of nursing academic fields must have taken place. with the importance of publication in English in nursing fields, we propose nursing libraries to collect basic guidebooks or manuals for writing English articles as well as to enrich digitalized data base for swift literature search of English.
