Bibliometrics studies the scientific papers that are published, the information that contain and the groups that produce and consume it. The bibliometric analysis of scientific production is the best indicator to evaluate the research activity performed. The objective of this work is to characterize the scientific production of nursing in Spain published in Web of Science. All publications in the “nursing" area of knowledge have been selected of the main collection of Web of Science from 2000 to the first half of 2016. 950 documents were obtained, 738 were original articles and the most productive city was Barcelona, followed by Madrid and Granada. 50% of the 10 most productive authors reside in Andalucía and the average number of authors per work varies between 3.5-4.5 from 2000 to 2005 and 5.5 in 2016. From the 20 most published journals, only one journal was Spanish and the rest belonged to European and American countries. The scientific production nurse is scarce compared to other disciplines of the Health Sciences, but since 2010 there is a trend of increase in the number of publications
