A VISUALIZATION ANALYSIS ON THE RESEARCH FRONTS AND KNOWLEDGE BASE OF EDUCATIONAL GAMES

Jianhua Wu and Dan Yang

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Keywords

Educational games, research fronts, knowledge base, knowledge map,Cite Space II

Abstract

A visualization analysis is carried out by means of CiteSpace II on the documents of educational games in SCI, SSCI, and A&HCI between 2003 and 2013. Important journals, authors, institutions, countries, key words, and key papers are identified. The research fronts and knowledge base of this field are discovered. It reveals that this field is still at its initial stage. It needs to absorb knowledge from education science, psychology, behaviour science, as well as cognitive science, etc. At the same time, it needs to do deep and extensive theoretical and applied research so as to form its own unique knowledge system gradually. It also demonstrates that one should guarantee the quality of input data and verify pivotal points while using CiteSpace II.

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