Mapping Trends and Hot-spots of Virtual Simulation Research in Nursing: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Background: Virtual simulation has been widely used in nursing education and nursing training. This study aims to characterize the publications in terms of countries, institutions, journals, authors, collaboration relationships, and analyze the trends of virtual simulation in nursing research.Methods: Publications regarding virtual simulation in nursing were retrieved from Web of Science core collection. Microsoft Excel 2010, VOSviewer were used to characterize the contributions of the authors, journals, institutions, and countries. The trends, hot-spots and knowledge network were analyzed by Citespace and VOSviewer.Results: We identified 611 papers between 1999 and 2021. The number of publications grew slowly until 2019, after that, it got a sharp increase in 2020 and 2021. The USA, Canada and Australia were three key contributors to this field. Centennial College, University of Ottawa, and Ryerson University were three major institutions with a larger number of publications. Verkuyl M was the most productive and highest cited author. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, Nurse Education Today, Journal of Nursing Education were the three productive journals. "virtual patients," "nursing students," "clinical simulation," and "communication skills" were the frontier topics in recent years.Conclusion: Using the Virtual patients to train nursing students, developing more reliable and objective assessment methods to validate learning outcomes might be the recent and future hot-topics.

Bibliometric analysis of China's high standard farmland construction research based on CNKI

“…Bibliometric analysis is a branch of library and intelligence research that uses mathematical and statistical methods to quantitatively describe, evaluate and predict the academic status and development trends [4], through the search of the target topic, obtain a large number of relevant literature, and analyze and compare the literature, aiming to understand and grasp the dynamics of relevant scientific research in the field and the current status of the research and development trends [5].CNKI is the largest and continuously updated CNKI is the largest and continuously updated literature database in China, which can retrieve a large number of literature types [6]. In this paper, CNKI is chosen as the data source, and bibliometric analysis is used to analyze the current status and development trend of research on high-standard farmland construction in China from 1996 to 2024, and systematically sort out the development of research on high-standard farmland construction from the year of publication, institutions, authors, the number of publications, journals, cited frequency, keywords and other elements, with the aim of providing the direction and ideas for China's highstandard farmland construction and research.…”