Bibliometric Analysis of the Academic Development Process of the "Metaverse" in the World and Turkey

Abstract

In this study, a bibliometric analysis was carried out to reveal the development process of academic studies on Metaverse in the world and in Turkey. The aim of the analysis is to examine the development process of the Metaverse concept in the academic world and to guide future research and studies on this subject. In the bibliometric analysis process, relevant publications were searched in Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases using the keyword "Metaverse" on 30.05.2023 and a total of 2201 publications were obtained from both databases between 1995 and 2022. The publications were analysed according to research areas, years, countries, institutions, keywords and number of citations. VOSviewer programme was used for keyword analysis. It was observed that the most studies on metaverse were conducted in the field of computer science in 2022. It was determined that the most publications were made at Sabancı University in our country and at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the world. It can be said that the most cited publications on metaverse are the study of Davis et al. in 2009 and the study of Dionisio et al. in 2013.