Learning Analytics is a recent and dynamic area of research. It is important, after a decade of the first published article in the area, to get insights about it. This article presents a bibliometric study conducted in order to better know their main aspects.
Fig. 1. Evolution of the number of publications and of the number of citations on LA from 2010 to 2020. Source: DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedro.2021.100084
Data was collected from the Web of Science Core Collection. The analysis of the data was two-folded. On the one side, a descriptive analysis was performed using several bibliometric measures, namely, number of articles published by year, number of publications by year, number of citations by publication’s age, countries of the publications, institutions of the publications, languages used, number of authors per publication, most productive authors, most cited authors. On the other side a co-authorship analysis was made considering authors, countries, and institutions as unit of analysis. The results obtained allowed to identify the evolution of the area, the main players in the area, namely authors, countries, and institutions. This article contributes to a deeper knowledge of the area of research Learning Analytics helping future researchers start their research in this area.
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area.
He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
