This paper aims to examine the current dynamics of the flipped classroom studies and to propose a direction for future research for the field. Using a bibliometric approach, we observe a sample of 1557 documents from the Scopus database to identify research activity on the flipped classroom. The keywords “flipped classroom” and “flipped learning” have been executed in the search query. We presented the earlier stage of research in the flipped classroom, the subsequent trends, publications status based on source title, country and institution and examined citations pattern of the publication. We also discuss the themes based on the occurrences and terms of the keywords, title and abstract of the documents. This paper also predicts the future study in the flipped classroom using Lotka’s law. We found that the pattern distribution of the author’s contribution fits with the law. We conclude by suggesting a few potential research directions on the flipped classroom. Research on flipped classroom focuses on approaches, strategies and effectiveness perceived by practitioners and learners with relatively less attention on author’s contribution and the prediction on their future and sustainable contribution and networking in guaranteeing the survival and expansion of flipped classroom approach for the coming decades.

本文旨在考察翻转课堂研究的当前动态，并为该领域的未来研究提出方向。使用文献计量方法，我们观察了 Scopus 数据库中的 1557 份文档样本，以识别翻转课堂上的研究活动。关键词“翻转课堂”和“翻转学习”已在搜索查询中执行。我们根据来源标题、国家和机构介绍了翻转课堂研究的早期阶段、后续趋势、出版物状态，并检查了出版物的引用模式。我们还根据文档的关键字、标题和摘要的出现和术语来讨论主题。本文还利用洛特卡定律预测了翻转课堂的未来学习。我们发现作者贡献的模式分布符合规律。最后，我们提出了一些关于翻转课堂的潜在研究方向。翻转课堂的研究侧重于实践者和学习者所感知的方法、策略和有效性，相对较少关注作者的贡献和对他们未来的预测以及在保证翻转课堂方法在未来几十年的生存和扩展方面的可持续贡献和网络。