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ArticleRevista latino-americana de enfermagem2025

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

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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Article in Revista latino-americana de enfermagem, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Agostinho A C AraújoUniversidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0996-0385
Lucas GardimUniversidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-5949-1663
Sara Soares Dos SantosUniversidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0712-0200
Ítalo Rodolfo SilvaUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-2882-1877
Manoel Carlos Neri da SilvaConselho Federal de Enfermagem, COFEn, Brasília, DF, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3923-7473
Simone de GodoyUniversidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0020-7645
Isabel Amélia Costa MendesUniversidade de São Paulo, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research Development, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-0704-4319

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background1) 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.

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

methoda 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.

results579 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.

conclusionour 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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BibliometricsEducation, NursingSimulation TrainingCaribbean RegionHumansLatin America

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PMCPMC11912820

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