Major trends in distance education research: a combination of bibliometric and thematic analyze
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study intends to explore the current trends in the field of distance
education research catalogued in Web of Science (WoS) database during
1980-2016. Mainly bibliographic description and social network analysis
was employed to investigate the structure and patterns of information
exchanged within the field of distance education research and also to
interpret the interrelationship between keywords indicated in these
articles. A total of 500 most cited articles (out of 6,141 relevant to
the topic) were reviewed to examine the impact of factors such as
journal DOI and keywords on the number of citations that they received.
We also identified major trends in distance education literature
including variation across publication and citation year, top ranking of
institutions and top ranking of published papers based on authors,
subject area and co-authorship collaboration between countries. Our
results show that the most cited articles are from two institutions of
United States and United Kingdom and the most prolific years in terms of
number of published articles and citations are 2013.We also found
non-significant and very small correlation between the number of
citation and DOI number of the journals. Our study serves as a resource
for future studies by indicating how trends in distance education
research have gradually developed over time and demonstrating the
characteristics of the most cited articles in this literature.
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