Publications related to virtual laboratories during the covid 19 pandemic: A bibliometric review and analysis

ABSTRACT

During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual laboratories are instrumental in learning physics concepts. A virtual laboratory is one media that can be used as a solution to carry out concept discovery activities through simulation using computer software. This article was created to explain the trend of publications related to virtual laboratories during the COVID-19 pandemic for 2020-2021 through bibliometric analysis of the literature. The papers analyzed were obtained using the Publish or Perish (PoP) software on the Google Scholar database. The following publication trend expresses in the form of graphic visualization, which is analyzed using VOSviewer software. Overall, articles with the keyword virtual laboratory published in the late 2020-2021 period focus on its relationship with Covid 19 and evaluation. This focus of research shows that during the past year, the focus of research is how to evaluate learning through virtual laboratories. © 2021 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.