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Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades
Online and virtual teaching–learning has been a panacea that most educational institutions adopted from the dire need created by COVID-19. We provide a comprehensive bibliometric study of 9523 publications on virtual laboratories in higher education covering the years 1991 to 2021. Influential bibli...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11058-9 |
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author | Raman, Raghu Achuthan, Krishnashree Nair, Vinith Kumar Nedungadi, Prema |
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description | Online and virtual teaching–learning has been a panacea that most educational institutions adopted from the dire need created by COVID-19. We provide a comprehensive bibliometric study of 9523 publications on virtual laboratories in higher education covering the years 1991 to 2021. Influential bibliometrics such as publications and citations, productive countries, contributing institutions, funders, journals, authors, and bibliographic couplings were studied using the Scientific Procedures and Rationales for Systematic Literature Reviews (SPAR-4-SLR) protocol. A new metric to complement citations called Field Weighted Citation Impact was introduced that considers the differences in research behavior across disciplines. Findings show that 72% of the research work was published between 2011-and 2021, most likely due to digitalization, with the highest number of publications in 2020–2021 highlighting the impact of the pandemic. Top contributing institutions were from the developed economies of Spain, Germany, and the United States. The citation impact from publications with international co-authors is the highest, highlighting the importance of co-authoring papers with different countries. For the first time, Altmetrics in the context of virtual labs were studied though a very low correlation was observed between citations and Altmetrics Attention Score. Still, the overall percentage of publications with attention showed linear growth. Our work also highlights that virtual laboratory could play a significant role in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDG4-Quality Education, which largely remains under-addressed. |
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spelling | pubmed-90460122022-04-28 Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades Raman, Raghu Achuthan, Krishnashree Nair, Vinith Kumar Nedungadi, Prema Educ Inf Technol (Dordr) Article Online and virtual teaching–learning has been a panacea that most educational institutions adopted from the dire need created by COVID-19. We provide a comprehensive bibliometric study of 9523 publications on virtual laboratories in higher education covering the years 1991 to 2021. Influential bibliometrics such as publications and citations, productive countries, contributing institutions, funders, journals, authors, and bibliographic couplings were studied using the Scientific Procedures and Rationales for Systematic Literature Reviews (SPAR-4-SLR) protocol. A new metric to complement citations called Field Weighted Citation Impact was introduced that considers the differences in research behavior across disciplines. Findings show that 72% of the research work was published between 2011-and 2021, most likely due to digitalization, with the highest number of publications in 2020–2021 highlighting the impact of the pandemic. Top contributing institutions were from the developed economies of Spain, Germany, and the United States. The citation impact from publications with international co-authors is the highest, highlighting the importance of co-authoring papers with different countries. For the first time, Altmetrics in the context of virtual labs were studied though a very low correlation was observed between citations and Altmetrics Attention Score. Still, the overall percentage of publications with attention showed linear growth. Our work also highlights that virtual laboratory could play a significant role in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, specifically SDG4-Quality Education, which largely remains under-addressed. Springer US 2022-04-28 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9046012/ /pubmed/35502162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11058-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Article Raman, Raghu Achuthan, Krishnashree Nair, Vinith Kumar Nedungadi, Prema Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
title | Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
title_full | Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
title_fullStr | Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
title_full_unstemmed | Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
title_short | Virtual Laboratories- A historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
title_sort | virtual laboratories- a historical review and bibliometric analysis of the past three decades |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9046012/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35502162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11058-9 |
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