Supplementing the Review of Business Simulation Games via Bibliometrics Analysis

Commercial business simulation games (BSGs) have been well developed since 1956; thus, they have been extensively adopted and researched. Faria et al. (2009) published an insightful 40-year review of BSGs. However, part of the analysis was based on 304 relevant articles only from Simulation and Gaming Journal for answering why BSG was adopted and how it was used. This research used the Web of Science academic online research database and CiteSpace software for additional bibliometrics analyses to supplement the incremental knowledge of the BSG review. The present study answered the following three additional questions: where is the research conducted and by whom, what are the research themes, and what and who are commonly cited. The outcome of this research should help researchers comprehend the BSG research review from a manual insightful process and an automatic analytic process.

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