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Educational Innovations and Technology

Educational Innovations and Technology is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1967. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education, with a focus on distance learning, virtual teaching, and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It addresses topics such as the digital divide, e-learning, pedagogical strategies for online education, and the development of digital competence among educators and students.

  • ICT
  • Education
  • Distance Learning
  • COVID-19
  • Virtual Teaching
  • Digital Divide
  • E-learning
  • Pedagogy
  • Online Education
  • Digital Competence
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1967
In the world top 10%
3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ecuador
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Innovations and Technology

Which countries lead Educational Innovations and Technology research?

By volume, Ecuador and Mexico publish the most (2.3k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ecuador 2.3k works
  2. 2 Mexico 2k works
  3. 3 Spain 1.7k works
  4. 4 Peru 1.5k works
  5. 5 Colombia 1.1k works
  6. 6 Brazil 657 works
  7. 7 Chile 509 works
  8. 8 ?? 422 works
  9. 9 Argentina 403 works
  10. 10 United States 308 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.

Ecuador: 21.2%Mexico: 18.1%Spain: 16.0%Peru: 13.9%6 others listed: 30.7%21%largest
Ecuador2,320 · 21.2%Mexico1,980 · 18.1%Spain1,748 · 16.0%Peru1,522 · 13.9%6 others listed3,359 · 30.7%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Innovations and Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad César Vallejo publishes the most Educational Innovations and Technology research, followed by Ação Educativa and Universidad Estatal de Milagro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad César VallejoPeru 509 works
  2. 2 Ação EducativaBrazil 426 works
  3. 3 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 320 works
  4. 4 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 214 works
  5. 5 University of GuayaquilEcuador 195 works
  6. 6 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 180 works
  7. 7 Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 158 works
  8. 8 National University of San MarcosPeru 142 works
  9. 9 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 130 works
  10. 10 Central University of EcuadorEcuador 113 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Innovations and Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Innovations and Technology include Richard E. Mayer and S. Goy López.

  1. 1 Richard E. Mayer United States 104k citations
  2. 2 S. Goy López Austria 103k 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 Educational Innovations and Technology?

The most cited paper in Educational Innovations and Technology is "Social Learning Theory." (Jackson Kytle, Albert Bandura, 1978), with 25,666 citations. Next come "Education and the COVID-19 pandemic" (2,449) and "Online University Teaching During and After the Covid-19 Crisis: Refocusing Teacher Presence and Learning Activity" (2,121).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Learning Theory. Jackson Kytle, Albert Bandura · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews 1978 25,666
2 Education and the COVID-19 pandemic Sir John Daniel · Prospects Open access 20 Apr 2020 2,449
3 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
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 Online and Remote Learning in Higher Education Institutes: A Necessity in light of COVID-19 Pandemic Wahab Ali · Higher Education Studies Open access 17 May 2020 1,672
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educational Innovations and Technology research done?

The largest centres of Educational Innovations and Technology research in 2022-now are Guayaquil (Ecuador), Trujillo (Peru), Lima (Peru) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Quito, Azogues and Durán.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 GuayaquilEcuador 614 works
  2. 2 TrujilloPeru 582 works
  3. 3 LimaPeru 529 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 506 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 470 works
  6. 6 BogotáColombia 393 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 316 works
  8. 8 Panama CityPanama 300 works
  9. 9 QuitoEcuador 274 works
  10. 10 Durán 214 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Quito60.4 works262×
  2. Azogues32.5 works216×
  3. Durán213.9 works185×
  4. GuarandaEC · 63.6 works120×
  5. EsmeraldasEC · 46.6 works120×
  6. La LibertadEC · 90.3 works111×
  7. TrujilloPE · 581.9 works104×
  8. BabahoyoEC · 51.8 works99×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Educational Innovations and Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Educational Innovations and Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catholic University of Ávila and Universidad César Vallejo score highest, combining citation 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 20.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Catholic University …Universitat Rovira i…Universidad de SevillaUniversidad César Va…
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Citation 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
1Universitat Rovira i VirgiliSpain 65.436.4%10.0×20 +27.8%
2Catholic University of ÁvilaSpain 65.243.6%49.3×11 +122.0%
3Universidad César VallejoPeru 62.212.0%165.9×509 +135.5%
4Universidad de SevillaSpain 61.125.7%10.1×64 -2.5%
5Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 56.98.8%253.3×320 +1030.1%
6Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 55.520.6%6.0×52 +8.6%
7University of GuayaquilEcuador 54.49.0%108.0×195 +72.6%
8Universidad de GranadaSpain 54.122.1%12.2×78 -28.4%
9Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPEEcuador 53.419.6%66.5×50 +103.4%
10Central University of EcuadorEcuador 53.011.1%91.8×113 +177.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Educational Innovations and Technology, country by country

Is Educational Innovations and Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Innovations and Technology.

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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 Educational Innovations and Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Educational Innovations and Technology0.047% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Educational Innovations and Technology 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%Educational Innovations and Technology9.7% 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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