Title
Detecting latent topics and trends in educational technologies over four decades using structural topic modeling: A retrospective of all volumes of computer & education
Abstract
Computers & Education has been leading the field of computers in education for over 40 years, during which time it has developed into a well-known journal with significant influences on the educational technology research community. Questions such as “in what research topics were the academic community of Computers & Education interested?” “how did such research topics evolve over time?” and “what were the main research concerns of its major contributors?” are important to both the editorial board and readership of Computers & Education. To address these issues, this paper conducted a structural topic modeling analysis of 3963 articles published in Computers & Education between 1976 and 2018 bibliometrically. A structural topic model was used to profile the research hotspots. By further exploring annual topic proportion trends and topic correlations, potential future research directions and inter-topic research areas were identified. The major research concerns of the publications in Computers & Education by prolific countries/regions were shown and compared. Thus, this work provided useful insights and implications, and it could be used as a guide for contributors to Computers & Education.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.compedu.2020.103855
Computers & Education
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Applications in subject areas,Data science applications in education
Journal
151
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0360-1315
3
0.40
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xieling Chen1179.41
Di Zou23812.11
Gary Cheng330.40
Haoran Xie445071.21