Objective: 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 practice-related 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.