The Hotspots and Trends on Augmented Reality Studies in Education: Based on CiteSpace

With the rapid development of Augmented Reality (AR) technology these years, a system review based on the visualization way could help researchers finding the hotspots and future trends in this field. In this study, 604 publications from 2016 to 2018 on Web of Science (WOS) database were selected into analysis. The distribution of different categories and regions of these studies was analyzed. The "Education & Educational Research" was the biggest category of all the studies. USA was the most productive region in the 2016 to 2018. The most influential author based on these studies was Ronald T Azuma. Three main hotspots and possible future trends were discussed in detail based on the visualization result.