A Bibliometric Analysis on the Research Trends of Gamification in Higher Education: 2010-2020

• Authors: Mohammad Bagher Khatibi , Alireza Badeleh , Rouhollah Khodabandelou

Abstracts

EN

Research on gamification shows that it has positive impacts on learning, performance, motivation, and engagement. To have a big picture on gamification research in higher education, a combination of bibliometric and thematic analysis was conducted. For this study, a total of 432 documents from 2010 to 2020 which have been indexed in Web of Science database are investigated. Additionally, the researchers analyzed a group of 10 articles to review how much contribution they had to the body of research. General tendencies in the way gamification has been changing or developing in academic literature were scrutinized from the perspective of a variety of different factors including the time the works were published; the areas of the research field; and the authors, organizations, countries, and co-authorship publishing the most number of works in the issue. The possible future applications and results for educational organizations and academicians, top academic decision-makers, and educationists are discussed.

Keywords

EN

gamifi cation; higher education; research trends; bibliometric

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 65
• Pages: 17-28

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Mohammad Bagher Khatibi

• Farhangian University

author

Alireza Badeleh

• Farhangian University

author

Rouhollah Khodabandelou

• Sultan Qaboos University

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.21.65.3.01

Biblioteka Nauki

1964326