Abstract Background Systematic integration of nursing staff perspectives constitutes a critical determinant of organizational efficacy. However, more and more studies showed that organizational silence occurred among nurses frequently. We aimed to analyze the pooled level of organizational silence in nursing field so as to provide the evidence for the nursing management. Methods The data were collected following predefined inclusion criteria. Two researchers independently screened studies, extracted data and assessed the quality of included studies. Stata 15.1 was used to examine the data. Results There were 34 studies in total, involving 13,394 nurses from China, Turkey, and Korea. Nurses had a moderate level of organizational silence in our study, with an average mean score of 2.69 (95% CI: 2.57–2.81). Significant heterogeneity in the prevalence estimates of the included studies was detected (I 2 = 99.00%, P