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Digital literacy in education

Digital literacy in education is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1957. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the development and assessment of digital competence, including digital skills, 21st-century skills, and ICT competencies, in the context of education and workforce development. It covers topics such as teacher education, media literacy, professional development, digital literacy, and the impact of digital competence on educational outcomes and the labor market.

  • Digital Skills
  • 21st-century Skills
  • Teacher Education
  • ICT Competencies
  • Media Literacy
  • Professional Development
  • Digital Literacy
  • Workforce Development
  • Educational Technology
  • Information Literacy
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+90%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital literacy in education

Which countries lead Digital literacy in education research?

By volume, Spain and Indonesia publish the most (703 and 472 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 703 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 472 works
  3. 3 Mexico 338 works
  4. 4 United States 325 works
  5. 5 Ecuador 305 works
  6. 6 China 287 works
  7. 7 India 243 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 220 works
  9. 9 Peru 215 works
  10. 10 Brazil 166 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.

Spain: 21.5%Indonesia: 14.4%Mexico: 10.3%United States: 9.9%6 others listed: 43.9%21%largest
Spain703 · 21.5%Indonesia472 · 14.4%Mexico338 · 10.3%United States325 · 9.9%6 others listed1,435 · 43.9%

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

Which institutions lead Digital literacy in education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad César Vallejo publishes the most Digital literacy in education research, followed by Universidad Estatal de Milagro and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad César VallejoPeru 70 works
  2. 2 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 59 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 53 works
  4. 4 Universidad de SevillaSpain 40 works
  5. 5 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 35 works
  6. 6 Universidad de GranadaSpain 29 works
  7. 7 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 28 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 27 works
  9. 9 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 26 works
  10. 10 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital literacy in education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital literacy in education include Richard E. Mayer and Lars Georg Svensson.

  1. 1 Richard E. Mayer United States 104k citations
  2. 2 Lars Georg Svensson United States 79k 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 literacy in education?

The most cited paper in Digital literacy in education is "Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge" (Punya Mishra, Matthew J. Koehler, 2006), with 10,114 citations. Next come "Understanding the role of digital technologies in education: A review" (2,598) and "The relation between 21st-century skills and digital skills: A systematic literature review" (1,981).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A Framework for Teacher Knowledge Punya Mishra, Matthew J. Koehler · Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education 26 May 2006 10,114
2 Understanding the role of digital technologies in education: A review Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid, Mohammad Asim Qadri et al. · Sustainable Operations and Computers Open access 2022 2,598
3 The relation between 21st-century skills and digital skills: A systematic literature review Ester van Laar, Alexander Johannes Aloysius Maria van Deursen, Jan A. G. M. van Dijk et al. · Computers in Human Behavior ReviewOpen access 3 Mar 2017 1,981
4 COVID-19: 20 countries’ higher education intra-period digital pedagogy responses Joseph Crawford, Kerryn A Butler-Henderson, Jürgen Rudolph et al. · Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching Open access Apr 2020 1,970
5 Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Wan Ng · Computers & Education 11 May 2012 1,591
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital literacy in education research done?

The largest centres of Digital literacy in education research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Trujillo (Peru) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Trujillo and Guayaquil.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 105 works
  2. 2 GuayaquilEcuador 94 works
  3. 3 TrujilloPeru 81 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 78 works
  5. 5 LimaPeru 75 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 70 works
  7. 7 BogotáColombia 55 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 53 works
  9. 9 SevilleSpain 49 works
  10. 10 ValenciaSpain 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán25.0 works44×
  2. TrujilloPE · 80.9 works29×
  3. GuayaquilEC · 94.4 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital literacy in education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital literacy in education?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, Universidad de Sevilla and Universitat de València 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.

0%20%40%mean 20.07%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Education University…Universidad de SevillaUniversitat de Valèn…Universidad César Va…
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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
1Education University of Hong KongChina 73.045.1%14.2×11 +389.5%
2Universidad de SevillaSpain 67.321.9%12.7×40 +29.8%
3Universitat de ValènciaSpain 57.212.4%11.4×35 +22.4%
4Universidad César VallejoPeru 56.96.8%45.8×70 +313.1%
5University of OsloNorway 56.129.8%2.4×8 +14.3%
6Universitat Rovira i VirgiliSpain 54.918.3%17.1×17 +108.0%
7Universidad de MálagaSpain 54.417.8%14.9×26 +85.0%
8Central China Normal UniversityChina 53.034.1%6.2×9 +182.2%
9Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 49.65.5%93.8×59 -
10Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 49.49.0%6.1×26 +47.5%

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 literacy in education, country by country

Is Digital literacy in education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 90% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital literacy in education.

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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 literacy in education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Digital literacy in education0.031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Digital literacy in education 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 literacy in education10.4% in 2025200020102020

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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