Aproximación cienciométrica a la investigación sobre educación en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19

Roelvis  Ortiz Núñez; Stephany  Novo Castro

Authors

Roelvis Ortiz Núñez Instituto de Información Científica y Tecnológica - IDICT
Stephany Novo Castro Instituto de Información Científica y Tecnológica - IDICT

Keywords:

Scientometrics, Education, COVID-19, Pandemic, Educational trends

Abstract

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affected all aspects of life. This reality led to the suspension of face-to-face educational activities and the total opening of the online teaching-learning process with alternative approaches and innovative research that needs to be examined in search of effective solutions. Faced with this problem, the present study aims to carry out a scientometric analysis of research about education in times of COVID-19 in 2020, which contributes to the intellectual representation of this scientific domain. The research is descriptive and uses a mixed methodology. The Web of Science Core Collection was used as the primary source of information. Scientometric indicators such as: co-authorship, co-occurrence analysis, citation, co-citation and bibliographic coupling were analyzed. The data was processed with the EndNote X9 reference manager and VosViewer. Of the total of 478 publications, the main journals are related to education in the medicine area and have high impact factors. The key research topics are related to the coronavirus description and the online teaching-learning process in the pandemic context. The high scientific production with a tendency to rapid growth, the preponderance of publications in high-impact journals, the tendency to increase the citations of articles and international collaboration, show the importance of research in education in the pandemic context, which is undoubtedly an indication of a promising future for this research field.

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