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Digital Education and Society

Digital Education and Society is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 4.9k research works in it since 1961. 10.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of postdigital education, technology-enhanced learning, and the impact of Covid-19 on educational practices. It delves into critical perspectives, digital pedagogy, and the philosophical implications of technological transformation in education. The cluster also discusses networked learning, bioinformational capitalism, and envisions future educational landscapes.

  • Postdigital Education
  • Technology-Enhanced Learning
  • Digital Pedagogy
  • Covid-19 Impact
  • Networked Learning
  • Critical Perspectives
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Collective Intelligence
  • Bioinformational Capitalism
  • Educational Futures
Research works
4.9k
fractional, since 1961
In the world top 10%
528
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+124%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Education and Society

Which countries lead Digital Education and Society research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (628 and 325 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 628 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 325 works
  3. 3 China 176 works
  4. 4 Germany 169 works
  5. 5 India 156 works
  6. 6 Russia 129 works
  7. 7 Canada 127 works
  8. 8 Australia 124 works
  9. 9 Italy 91 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 71 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 31.5%United Kingdom: 16.3%China: 8.8%Germany: 8.5%6 others listed: 34.9%31%largest
United States628 · 31.5%United Kingdom325 · 16.3%China176 · 8.8%Germany169 · 8.5%6 others listed697 · 34.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Digital Education and Society research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Edinburgh publishes the most Digital Education and Society research, followed by University College London and The University of Sydney.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 33 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 18 works
  3. 3 The University of SydneyAustralia 15 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 University of Applied Health SciencesCroatia 13 works
  6. 6 York UniversityCanada 13 works
  7. 7 CHDI FoundationUnited States 13 works
  8. 8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 12 works
  9. 9 Monash UniversityAustralia 12 works
  10. 10 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Education and Society?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Education and Society include Bruno Latour and Carl J. Lavie.

  1. 1 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  2. 2 Carl J. Lavie United States 113k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Digital Education and Society?

The most cited paper in Digital Education and Society is "The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence" (Sue Bennett, Karl Maton, Lisa K. Kervin, 2008), with 2,960 citations. Next come "Online University Teaching During and After the Covid-19 Crisis: Refocusing Teacher Presence and Learning Activity" (2,121) and "A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities" (1,024).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence Sue Bennett, Karl Maton, Lisa K. Kervin · British Journal of Educational Technology 6 Feb 2008 2,960
2 Online University Teaching During and After the Covid-19 Crisis: Refocusing Teacher Presence and Learning Activity Chrysi Rapanta, Luca Botturi, Peter Goodyear et al. · Postdigital Science and Education Open access 7 Jul 2020 2,121
3 A Theoretical Framework for the Critical Posthumanities Rosi Braidotti · Theory Culture & Society Open access 4 May 2018 1,024
4 Postdigital science and education Petar Jandrić, Jeremy Knox, Tina Besley et al. · Educational Philosophy and Theory Open access 26 Mar 2018 954
5 Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence Shakir Mohamed, Marie-Thérèse Png, William Isaac · Philosophy & Technology Open access 12 Jul 2020 849
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Where is Digital Education and Society research done?

The largest centres of Digital Education and Society research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia), New York (United States) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 67 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 52 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 41 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 39 works
  5. 5 EdinburghUnited Kingdom 34 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 32 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 30 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 26 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 26 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Digital Education and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Edinburgh, The University of Sydney and University of Oxford score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 85.731.9%13.5×33 +108.0%
2The University of SydneyAustralia 67.837.8%4.5×15 +323.1%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.049.3%2.3×9 +54.9%
4University of Applied Health SciencesCroatia 60.852.9%302.8×13 -28.9%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 60.332.6%4.3×12 +160.4%
6University of British ColumbiaCanada 58.435.5%3.6×12 +157.9%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.717.1%4.0×18 +97.0%
8The University of MelbourneAustralia 54.732.4%3.6×11 +76.9%
9University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 48.630.7%4.7×8 +28.2%
10Tampere UniversityFinland 47.819.0%12.7×11 +452.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Digital Education and Society, country by country

Is Digital Education and Society research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 124% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Education and Society.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Digital Education and Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0067% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital Education and Society over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Digital Education and Society10.8% in 202520102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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