Learning Analytics: a bibliometric analysis of the literature over the last decade

Learning Analytics is a recent and dynamic area of research. It is important, after a decade of the first published article in the area, to get insights about it. This article presents a bibliometric study conducted in order to better know their main aspects. Data was collected from the Web of Scien...

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Autores principales: Ana Azevedo, Jose Manuel Azevedo
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5ce2aef39c2e44f196ba352761b4ac022021-11-18T04:52:08ZLearning Analytics: a bibliometric analysis of the literature over the last decade2666-374010.1016/j.ijedro.2021.100084https://doaj.org/article/5ce2aef39c2e44f196ba352761b4ac022021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666374021000546https://doaj.org/toc/2666-3740Learning Analytics is a recent and dynamic area of research. It is important, after a decade of the first published article in the area, to get insights about it. This article presents a bibliometric study conducted in order to better know their main aspects. Data was collected from the Web of Science Core Collection. The analysis of the data was two-folded. On the one side, a descriptive analysis was performed using several bibliometric measures, namely, number of articles published by year, number of publications by year, number of citations by publication's age, countries of the publications, institutions of the publications, languages used, number of authors per publication, most productive authors, most cited authors. On the other side a co-authorship analysis was made considering authors, countries, and institutions as unit of analysis. The results obtained allowed to identify the evolution of the area, the main players in the area, namely authors, countries, and institutions. This article contributes to a deeper knowledge of the area of research Learning Analytics helping future researchers start their research in this area.Ana AzevedoJose Manuel AzevedoElsevierarticleLABibliometricsEducational analyticsCo-authorship network analysisTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENInternational Journal of Educational Research Open, Vol 2, Iss , Pp 100084- (2021)
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Bibliometrics
Educational analytics
Co-authorship network analysis
Theory and practice of education
LB5-3640
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Bibliometrics
Educational analytics
Co-authorship network analysis
Theory and practice of education
LB5-3640
Ana Azevedo
Jose Manuel Azevedo
Learning Analytics: a bibliometric analysis of the literature over the last decade
description Learning Analytics is a recent and dynamic area of research. It is important, after a decade of the first published article in the area, to get insights about it. This article presents a bibliometric study conducted in order to better know their main aspects. Data was collected from the Web of Science Core Collection. The analysis of the data was two-folded. On the one side, a descriptive analysis was performed using several bibliometric measures, namely, number of articles published by year, number of publications by year, number of citations by publication's age, countries of the publications, institutions of the publications, languages used, number of authors per publication, most productive authors, most cited authors. On the other side a co-authorship analysis was made considering authors, countries, and institutions as unit of analysis. The results obtained allowed to identify the evolution of the area, the main players in the area, namely authors, countries, and institutions. This article contributes to a deeper knowledge of the area of research Learning Analytics helping future researchers start their research in this area.
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