To analyze the related foreign literature about compassion fatigue (CF) and to provide the basis for further improving the level of research in this field.
Based on the Web of Science core database and its own analysis function, HistCite analysis software was used to study the diploma research about CF.
A total of 652 paper were retrieved, the output of literature showed an increasing trend year by year. The United States ranked first, and China ranked eleventh. The “
In recent years, the related heat of CF has been high fever. Our research in this field is still in the primary stage, and it needs to be further excavated and promoted.