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Evaluation of the effectiveness of educational escape rooms within health professions education: A systematic review protocol

Publicated to:International Journal Of Educational Research. 117 102123- - 2023-01-01 117(), DOI: 10.1016/j.ijer.2022.102123

Authors: Bray, L; Antoniou, P; Nikolaidou, M; Fides-Valero, A; Roberts, T; Ahonen, O; Häyrinen, S; Campos-Díaz, E; Bamidis, PD

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Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki AUTH, Fac Hlth Sci, Sch Med, Med Phys & Digital Innovat Lab - Author
Assoc Med Educ Europe - Author
Copenhagen Acad Med Educ & Simulat CAMES, Ctr HR & Educ - Author
Laurea Univ Appl Sci - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Inst Aplicac Tecnol Informat & Comunicac Avanz - Author
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Abstract

Escape rooms are being increasingly employed as an educational approach within health pro-fessions education. Given the rapid increase in their application, investigators have adopted diverse evaluation methods, many of which utilise ad-hoc instruments. To inform future evalu-ation methods and the adoption of validated evaluation instruments, a systematic review is planned. This protocol outlines the steps of this review, which will collate and synthesise the evidence related to the evaluation and efficacy of educational escape rooms within health pro-fessions education. A search, applying terms for escape rooms, healthcare professionals and evaluation, will be conducted using multiple databases. Studies will be screened against eligibility criteria and all eligible studies will be quality assessed using a validated tool. Data will be narratively synthesised.

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Escape roomsEvaluationGamificationStrategyStudentsStudy protocolSystematic review

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal International Journal Of Educational Research due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 120/760, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Education & Educational Research.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.82. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 2 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-29, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 4
  • Scopus: 8

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-29:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 48.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 48 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Denmark; Finland; Greece; United Kingdom.