- Title
- Virtual simulation studies in nursing education : a bibliometric analysis of the top 100 cited studies, 2021
- Creator
- Cant, Robyn; Ryan, Colleen; Kardong-Edgren, Suzan
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189096
- Identifier
- vital:17362
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105385
- Identifier
- ISSN:0260-6917 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Objectives: Bibliometrics is an emerging science in nursing. Quantitative methods were used to conduct a bibliometric analysis of highly cited virtual simulation nursing education articles to describe rank order, breadth of topics and authorship patterns. Design and data sources: A desktop analysis of publication performance was conducted using the Scopus database as the source of article citation data. Results and Discussion: The top 100 cited articles clustered over 14-years, 2008 to 2021. Citations per paper ranged from 88 to a low of 3 (median 18, mean 22.1) and in the top 10 studies, from 88 to 41. The citation trajectory was moderately correlated with article maturity (r =
- Publisher
- Churchill Livingstone
- Relation
- Nurse Education Today Vol. 114, no. (2022), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy; 4204 Midwifery; 4205 Nursing; Bibliometrics; Computer simulation; Nurse education; Research; Virtual simulation
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