Research trends in educational technology journals between 2000 and 2018: a web scraping study

Previous screening studies conducted in leading educational technology journals have primarily been content analyses or systematic reviews; however, this article reports on a web scraping study through the keywords of the articles discussed in this study. An analysis was performed on the keywords of...

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Published inEducation and information technologies Vol. 27; no. 4; pp. 5179 - 5214
Main Authors Dağhan, Gökhan, Gündüz, Abdullah Yasin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.05.2022
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Analysis
Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Computer Science
Computers and Education
Education
Educational innovations
Educational Research
Educational Technology
Evaluation Methods
Information Retrieval
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Keywords
Technology application
Trend Analysis
Trends
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
Web Sites
Web scraping
Educational technology
Educational technology journals
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Summary:Previous screening studies conducted in leading educational technology journals have primarily been content analyses or systematic reviews; however, this article reports on a web scraping study through the keywords of the articles discussed in this study. An analysis was performed on the keywords of articles published between 2000 and 2018 in 14 educational technology journals screened within the scope of Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Using the web scraping method, 10,386 educational technology articles were screened to obtain 49,963 keywords and 27,045 unique keywords. These keywords were ranked according to their frequency of usage, and the top 100 keywords were reported. In addition, similar terms were combined into categories. The research findings aimed to reveal the current situation and shed light on the trends in educational technology research in recent years. Based on the findings, suggestions were developed for future research, and inferences were made.
ISSN:1360-2357
1573-7608
DOI:10.1007/s10639-021-10762-2