Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Serious Games
Date Submitted: Aug 7, 2021
Open Peer Review Period: Aug 7, 2021 - Aug 13, 2021
Date Accepted: Sep 24, 2021
Date Submitted to PubMed: Dec 2, 2021
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Virtual Reality in healthcare: A bibliometric analysis
ABSTRACT
Background:
Research on the application of Virtual Reality technology to the healthcare sector has grown rapidly, leading to a large research field difficult to oversee.
Objective:
We provide an overview of the annual publication numbers and the most productive and influential countries, journals, and authors, as well as the most used, most co-occurring, and most recent keywords.
Methods:
Based on a dataset of 356 publicatons and 20,363 citations derived from the Web of Sci-ence, we conducted a bibliometric analysis using Bibexcel, HistCite, and VOSViewer.
Results:
The strongest growth of publications occurred in 2020, accounting for 29.49% of all publi-cations so far. The most productice countries are the USA, the UK, and Spain; the most influential countries are the USA, Canada, and the UK. The most productive journals are JMIR, JMIR Serious Games, and Games for Health Journal; the most influential journals are Patient Education and Counselling, Medical Education, and Quality of Life Research. The most productive authors are G. Riva, L. Del Piccolo, and D. C. Schwebel; the most in-fluential authors are A. Finset, L. del Piccolo, and H. Eide. The most occurring noun key-words besides Virtual and Reality are Training, Trial, and Patients. The most relevant re-search themes are communication, education, and novel treatments; the most recent re-search trends are fitness and exergames.
Conclusions:
The analysis shows that the field has left its infant state and advances its specialization, with a clear focus on patient usability.
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