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

DAĞHAN G., GÜNDÜZ A. Y.

EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, cilt.27, sa.4, ss.5179-5214, 2022 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 27 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s10639-021-10762-2
  • Dergi Adı: EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, EBSCO Education Source, Educational research abstracts (ERA), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), INSPEC
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5179-5214
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Web scraping, Educational technology, Educational technology journals, DECADES
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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.