Abstract

AZNAR DIAZ, Inmaculada; TRUJILLO TORRES, Juan Manuel  and  ROMERO RODRIGUEZ, José María. Bibliometric study about virtual reality applied to neurorehabilitation and its presence in scientific literature. Rev. cuba. inf. cienc. salud [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 2307-2113.

ABSTRACT Ever since the 1990s virtual reality has been applied in healthcare to treat phobias and mental disorders, and is currently used for neurorehabilitation, as it is able to deceive the brain and extrapolate the user to a virtual world. Given the growing interest in the topic, this study aims to analyze the high-impact scientific production about virtual reality applied to neurorehabilitation included in the Web of Science and Scopus in the last 10 years. To achieve this end, a bibliometric methodology was used based on a number of keywords checked in databases and used by different authors in their publications. Eight variables were analyzed, in line with previous studies: total number of documents, production per year, document type, source title, affiliation, countries, authors and most cited articles. Among the results is the growing interest in the topic as of the year 2013 and the boom in production in 2016, as well as the involvement of the main world powers in research and publication about the use of virtual reality for rehabilitation. Finally, analysis of the metadata shows an incipient panorama in publications about virtual reality in healthcare, with the United States as the country with the greatest scientific production.

Keywords : virtual reality; neurorehabilitation; bibliometric study; medicine.

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