Visual Analysis of the Application Research of Extended Reality in Education Based on CiteSpace

Extended reality (XR), including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR), has been widely used in the field of education and has promising research prospects. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of theoretical and empirical studies on the application of XR in education, and it is necessary to review the relevant studies. With the help of CiteSpace, this study makes a visual analysis of 1613 documents published in this field in the last ten years (2012–2022). The specific contents of the study include revealing research trends, finding influential authors, institutions and countries, identifying highly cited literature, and detecting research hotspots and frontiers.