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Description: Nursing Research Competence (NRC), which is vital for the development of the nursing discipline and evidence-based nursing practice, has been getting increased attention within many areas of nursing. The measurement of NRC is important for the research, education, and management related to NRC. Although some related instruments have emerged during the past decade, there is still no consistent definition of and instrument for measuring NRC. We will conduct a scoping review to map the current state of the science of the instruments for nursing research competence. The two objectives of the proposed scoping review are: 1) To identify, evaluate, compare, and summarize the instruments developed to measure NRC. 2) To provide an overview of the use of all the instruments that have been developed for measuring NRC.