Abstract
The paper analyzed the global growth and development of flipped classroom research productivity in terms of publication output as reflected in SCI/SSCI for the period 2000-2015. Publication types and languages, characteristics of articles outputs, countries, subject categories and journals, and the frequency of keywords were analyzed using bibliometric methods. There are 149 articles in 78 journals listed in 41 SCI/SSCI subject categories. A sharp growth trend of publication output was observed during 2011-2015. USA played a predominant role in flipped classroom research. Education educational research, chemistry and medical were the top 3 categories and “active learning” and “blended learning” recent major topics of flipped classroom research during the past 16 years. The results could help researchers understand the characteristics of research output and search hot spots of flipped education field.
Highlights
There has been a growing interest in using the flipped classroom in both K-12 education and higher education [1]
HistCite software developed by Garfield and colleagues [12] was used to figure out the total global citation score (TGCs)
There were 149 papers related to flipped classroom research in the database, including 6 document types
Summary
There has been a growing interest in using the flipped classroom in both K-12 education and higher education [1]. What is traditionally done in class and as homework are switched or flipped [2]. It was reported that flipped classroom was successful for both faculty and students [2]. There have been a number of published papers which have reported the investigation and application of flipped classroom. Some of them reviewed the trends of flipped classroom development. Tomory and Watson [3] explains how issues regarding dual credit and Advanced Placement high school science courses could be mitigated via a flipped classroom instructional model. Leung et al [4] gave a short review on flipped classroom approach and O'Flaherty and Phillips [5] reviewed the applications of flipped classrooms in higher education
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