A Bibliometric Study on the Rising Trends of Metaverse Literature in Asia-Pacific Countries

Abstract

Abstract The present research employs bibliometric analysis to investigate past and current trends in research and forecast potential areas of research in Metaverse Literatures within the Asia-Pacific region. The bibliometric method was utilized to gather a total of 571 academic publications from the Web of Science database in this study. This research employs co-citation and co-word analyses to identify the most impactful publications, explicate the knowledge framework, and predict emerging trends. The analysis of co-citation revealed the presence of four primary clusters, whereas the analysis of co-word identified three clusters. The significance of Metaverse Literatures research is on the rise in the Asia-Pacific region; however, further investigation is required to furnish a more comprehensive perspective of the research landscape. This study essentially illuminates the research on metaverse and offers a perspective on the prospective future advancement of the domain in the Asia-Pacific regions. This study is distinctive in that it represents the initial attempt to construct a knowledge structure of metaverse in the Asia-Pacific region by means of a science mapping technique.