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Information Technology and Learning

Information Technology and Learning is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 4.2k research works in it since 1950. 12.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to education, technology, and territorial intelligence. It includes discussions on e-learning, virtual communities, knowledge management, distance learning, scenario writing, digital preservation, and the impact of globalization on education. The papers also explore the use of technology in educational settings and its implications for territorial development.

  • Education
  • Technology
  • Territorial Intelligence
  • E-learning
  • Virtual Communities
  • Knowledge Management
  • Distance Learning
  • Scenario Writing
  • Digital Preservation
  • Globalization
Research works
4.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
519
per year above
Top-10% rate
12.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
64% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Information Technology and Learning

Which countries lead Information Technology and Learning research?

By volume, France and ?? publish the most (510 and 51 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 510 works
  2. 2 ?? 51 works
  3. 3 Canada 43 works
  4. 4 Spain 43 works
  5. 5 Belgium 38 works
  6. 6 Morocco 33 works
  7. 7 United States 25 works
  8. 8 Côte d'Ivoire 20 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 19 works
  10. 10 Democratic Republic of the Congo 15 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.

France: 64.0%??: 6.4%Canada: 5.4%Spain: 5.3%6 others listed: 18.8%64%largest
France510 · 64.0%??51 · 6.4%Canada43 · 5.4%Spain43 · 5.3%6 others listed150 · 18.8%

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

Which institutions lead Information Technology and Learning research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Information Technology and Learning research, followed by University of Mons and Université de Lorraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 113 works
  2. 2 University of MonsBelgium 24 works
  3. 3 Université de LorraineFrance 23 works
  4. 4 Université de LyonFrance 22 works
  5. 5 Université de MontpellierFrance 17 works
  6. 6 Nantes UniversitéFrance 16 works
  7. 7 Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 15 works
  8. 8 Université Paris-SaclayFrance 12 works
  9. 9 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 10 works
  10. 10 Université Paris CitéFrance 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Information Technology and Learning?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Information Technology and Learning include Herbert A. Simon.

  1. 1 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k 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 Information Technology and Learning?

The most cited paper in Information Technology and Learning is "La didactique professionnelle" (Pierre Pastré, Patrick Mayen, Gérard Vergnaud, 2006), with 879 citations. Next come "Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: the Example of Hypoglycaemia" (697) and "Auto- and allo-confrontation as tools for reflective activities" (370).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 La didactique professionnelle Pierre Pastré, Patrick Mayen, Gérard Vergnaud · Revue française de pédagogie Open access 2006 879
2 Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: the Example of Hypoglycaemia Annemarie Mol, John R. Law · Body & Society Open access Jun 2004 697
3 Auto- and allo-confrontation as tools for reflective activities Vanina Mollo, Pierre Falzon · Applied Ergonomics Open access 18 Aug 2004 370
4 Transformation or evolution?: Education 4.0, teaching and learning in the digital age Christopher Alan Bonfield, Marie Salter, Alan Longmuir et al. · Higher Education Pedagogies Open access 2020 361
5 La professionnalisation Richard Wittorski · Savoirs Open access Jun 2008 355
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Information Technology and Learning research done?

The largest centres of Information Technology and Learning research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Montpellier (France), Mons (Belgium) and Lyon (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mons.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 108 works
  2. 2 MontpellierFrance 29 works
  3. 3 MonsBelgium 24 works
  4. 4 LyonFrance 24 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 22 works
  6. 6 NantesFrance 21 works
  7. 7 RennesFrance 19 works
  8. 8 MarseilleFrance 15 works
  9. 9 LilleFrance 14 works
  10. 10 MontrealCanada 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MonsBE · 24.3 works136×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Information Technology and Learning than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Information Technology and Learning?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Montpellier, Université de Lyon and Sorbonne Université 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%5%10%mean 5.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sorbonne UniversitéUniversité Paris CitéUniversité de Montpe…Université de Lyon
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.

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
1Université de MontpellierFrance 65.25.6%61.2×17 +123.5%
2Université de LyonFrance 64.54.8%41.8×22 +95.8%
3Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 63.610.8%18.6×10 +20.5%
4Université Paris CitéFrance 61.610.0%16.7×10 +35.0%
5Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 61.48.9%56.2×15 +38.7%
6Université de LorraineFrance 58.63.8%73.3×23 +81.5%
7University of MonsBelgium 51.13.0%158.3×24 +66.1%
8Université Paris-SaclayFrance 47.22.1%22.6×12 +20.4%
9Nantes UniversitéFrance 47.14.8%81.1×16 +104.7%
10Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 36.24.3%29.6×10 -2.4%

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 Information Technology and Learning, country by country

Is Information Technology and Learning research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Information Technology and Learning.

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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 Information Technology and Learning as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Information Technology and Learning0.0042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Information Technology and Learning 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%Information Technology and Learning9.8% 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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