Virtual simulation in nursing education in Latin America and the Caribbean: A bibliometric study.

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q3 NURSING Revista Latino-Americana De Enfermagem Pub Date : 2025-03-14 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1590/1518-8345.7261.4422

Agostinho A C Araújo, Lucas Gardim, Sara Soares Dos Santos, Ítalo Rodolfo Silva, Manoel Carlos Neri da Silva, Simone de Godoy, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes

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Background: 1) Virtual simulation connects theory and practice in nursing education.(2) Only Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Cuba conducted research on the subject. (3) Brazilian journals lead scientific production on virtual simulation. (4) Scientific production on the subject has increased.

Objective: to examine the characteristics of scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean regarding virtual simulation in nursing education.

Method: a bibliometric study conducted in five stages: research design, compiling the bibliometric data, analysis, visualization, and interpretation; and based on the recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Bibliometric Analysis (PRIBA). The search was conducted in the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILACS). VOSviewer version 1.6.20 was used for bibliometric analysis. Bradford's and Zipf's Laws were applied to interpret the data, considering the temporal dynamics of publications, an analytical approach to the structure of the selected studies and their repercussions in virtual simulation in nursing education in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Results: 579 studies were identified, of which 46 were included in the final sample. The studies included were published between 1994 and 2022, and only Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Cuba conducted research related to virtual simulation. The semantic map resulted in five clusters, highlighting "simulation training" as the most important term.

Conclusion: our findings suggest a projected increase in Scholarly publications on virtual simulation in nursing education in Latin America and the Caribbean in the coming years.

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背景：(1) 虚拟仿真将护理教育中的理论与实践联系起来。(2) 只有巴西、智利、哥伦比亚和古巴开展了相关研究。(3）巴西的期刊引领了虚拟仿真的科学研究。(目的：研究拉丁美洲及加勒比地区有关护理教育中虚拟仿真的科研成果的特点。方法：根据文献计量学分析首选报告项目（PRIBA）的建议，分五个阶段进行文献计量学研究：研究设计、文献计量学数据编纂、分析、可视化和解释。）检索在拉丁美洲和加勒比健康科学文献（LILACS）中进行。文献计量学分析使用 VOSviewer 1.6.20 版。考虑到出版物的时间动态、所选研究的结构分析方法及其对拉丁美洲和加勒比地区护理教育中虚拟仿真的影响，采用布拉德福德定律和齐普夫定律对数据进行了解释：结果：共确定了 579 项研究，其中 46 项被纳入最终样本。这些研究发表于 1994 年至 2022 年之间，只有巴西、智利、哥伦比亚和古巴开展了与虚拟仿真相关的研究。语义图产生了五个群组，其中 "模拟培训 "是最重要的术语。结论：我们的研究结果表明，未来几年拉丁美洲和加勒比地区有关护理教育中虚拟仿真的学术出版物预计会增加。

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期刊介绍： A Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem constitui-se no órgão oficial de divulgação científica da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo e do Centro Colaborador da OMS para o Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa em Enfermagem. Foi criada em abril de 1992 sendo sua primeira edição publicada em janeiro de 1993. No período de 1993 a 1997 tinha periodicidade semestral, de 1997 a 2000 trimestral e, a partir de janeiro de 2001, tem periodicidade bimestral. Caracteriza-se como periódico de circulação internacional, abrangendo predominantemente os países da América Latina e Caribe, embora seja também divulgado para assinantes dos Estados Unidos, Portugal e Espanha.