Transforming Education with Virtual Reality

17Application of Virtual Reality for Education

Ramkrishna Dikkatwar¹, Nilesh Kate^1*, Saradhi Kumar Gonela² and Prashant Chaudhary³

¹Pune Institute of Business Management, Pune, Maharashtra, India

²SIBM Hyderabad - A Constituent of Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, Maharashtra, India

³WPU School of Business, Dr. Vishwanath Karad MIT World Peace University, Pune, India

Abstract

Virtual reality (VR) is a rapidly evolving technology increasingly used in education. This research presents a bibliometric review and analysis of the research on VR in education in emerging economies, using data from the Scopus database. The investigation revealed that there were 984 publications on VR in education between 1996 to 2022, with increasing trends and patterns in recent years. This study aims to discover the leading organizations, countries, contributors, publication sources, and most-cited articles in VR in education in emerging economies and identify the top thematic area in VR in education in emerging countries. VOSviewer and Biblioshiny tools were used to perform bibliometric analysis in the study. China was the most productive country, and VR in education publications and citations productivity rate gradually increased in the last decade, especially during and post-pandemic. Top organizations based on several VR and AR papers are in medical education. The results of this bibliometric review can help researchers and educators identify current research trends, gaps in ...