Research Publication on Ubiquitous Learning during 2005-2019

Analysis and Visualization

Abstract

Nowadays, we are observing the changing nature of teaching and learning which is somewhat ubiquitous in nature. This study tries to identify the research trend in the domain of ubiquitous learning. A total of 1883 records contributed by researchers globally were retrieved from Web of Science database. The period of study is limited to 2005-2019. Bibliometric method was adopted keeping
in mind the objectives of the study. VOSviewer software was also used for creating and visualizing bibliometric maps. Growth trend of published output exhibits an exponential pattern and about 59% of literature was published during the last five years of the period under study. Articles published in the top ten journals made up 16.13% of the total output. About 70% of leading journals belong to the Q1 category as per WoS specification which means lion’s share of output is published in top quality journals. Ten most prolific authors together contributed a 6.71 percent share of the total cumulative research output. The study further revealed that about 96% of
contributions are produced from top ten most productive countries and USA has made the highest impact as well. Author keywords co-occurrence cluster analysis revealed the frequency of usage of keywords. Machine learning becomes the most sought keyword. The findings explore that research in ubiquitous learning is an emerging area of investigation. So far no such study on trends of research activities in this domain has been done.