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Categorization of E-learning as an emerging discipline in the world publication system: a bibliometric study in SCOPUS

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E-learning has been continuously present in current educational discourse, thanks to technological advances, learning methodologies and public or organizational policies, among other factors. However, despite its boom and dominance in various subject areas, this thematic does not yet exist in the world system of publications. Therefore, works in this thematic end up being published under related categories, particularly in education or computer science, thus fragmenting and make invisible the existing knowledge. This work is based on the hypothesis that the scientific communication of e-learning has a sufficient degree of cohesion to be considered as a thematic category in itself. From a bibliometric approach, its scientific production was analyzed, obtaining the bibliographic data of SCOPUS and SCImago Journal & Country Rank, selecting its main descriptors and generating visualizations through VOSViewer with the mapping overlay technique, to represent its set and proximity. As a result, it was determined that a set of 219 publications show a high bibliometric interrelation among its articles and these are presented mainly in the social sciences and transversally between computer science and health professions. This set serves as a channel of scientific communication and structure of knowledge on the thematic and can therefore be considered as the basis for establishing the “e-learning” thematic category in the world system of scientific publications, contributing to the consolidation of the discipline, to its access and development by researchers.
Tibaná-Herrera, Gerardo (57199146365); Fernández-Bajón, María Teresa (23034351300); De Moya-Anegón, Félix (57194647093)
2018
10.1186/s41239-018-0103-4
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048265628&doi=10.1186%2fs41239-018-0103-4&partnerID=40&md5=79dd95897682a43effc461acf66b8bbf
Complutense University of Madrid. PhD Library Science Program, Madrid, Spain; SCImago Research Group, Bogotá, Colombia; Complutense University of Madrid, Department of Library and Information Science, Madrid, Spain; SCImago Research Group, Madrid, Spain
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