Abstract: Objective To explore the problems existing in the Doctoral students' academic papers of nursing under the background of subject evaluation, so as to provide scientific basis for the discipline construction of nursing. Methods From January 2019, 20 English papers and 10 Chinese papers were collected from 23 domestic primary discipline authorized units of nursing from December 2015 to December 2018. This paper analyzes the classification, influencing factors, citation times and the first author and corresponding author units. Results Totally 688 papers were collected. Among them, nursing professional papers accounted for 46.2% (318 / 688), nursing related papers accounted for 35.6% (245 / 688), and other academic papers accounted for 18.2% (125 / 688). The highest influential factors of nursing professional papers and nursing related papers were 6.02, of which 4.5% (31 / 688) were papers with more than 3 influencing factors, and 14.09 (41 / 688) were other academic papers with more than 3 influencing factors. Calculated by institutions, the total number of citations of submitted papers is 522 at most and 19 at least. 2.3% (16 / 688) of the papers were from the first author's unit and the submitting unit. Among the papers submitted by some universities, even 10.0% (3 / 30) of the first authors and corresponding authors are not authors of their own units. Conclusions There are more academic papers of non nursing major submitted by 23 colleges and universities, which indicates that some colleges and universities are not accurate enough in the development goal orientation of nursing discipline. The influencing factors and cited times of nursing academic papers are low. In the future, we should make clear the development direction of nursing discipline, strengthen the vertical research of nursing discipline, and improve the quality of nursing professional academic papers.

Key words: Nursing, Subject evaluation, Academic paper evaluation, First level subject