[The status of the art of scientific articles in Italy between 2003 -2009: an analysis of articles published by nursing Italian journals].

This study investigates  the number of  articles published by Italian nursing journals by analyzing five Italian journals between 2003 and 2009. This is the third part of a study started  in 1978,  two articles were already published in 2005. The work is aimed at monitoring the number of nursing articles published.