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Technological adoption in the educational sector is an issue of impact for higher education due to changes in social, political, and environmental conditions to which it may be exposed. The objective of this study was to identify trends in the use and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in higher education institutions (IES) based on a bibliometric analysis between 1991-and 2021. The methodology was based on the formulation of a search equation in the SCOPUS database, used to analyze 235 documents on the subject of interest, using indicators of impact, productivity, and trend to understand their evolution over time. The results indicated that the United States and Taiwan are the countries where the topic is most studied. The authors with the most publications and citations research areas such as social sciences, computer science, and engineering. The conclusions show that the Technology Adoption Model (TAM) is the model with the highest impact in studies oriented to HEIs; for this reason, developed countries rely on it to formulate their research, to validate and corroborate the efficiency in their choice of use.

In recent decades, the emergence of new information and communication technologies has broadened the remit of bibliometric analysis. Bibliometrics are now used not only to assess products of scholarly communication such as articles or monographs, but to examine technology-related content such as web portals, repositories of technical publications or documents in social networks, which are studied with the help of web analytics and altmetrics. This paper examines the implications of this trend for the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), whose criteria for assessing institutional performance have been extended in recent years to include the number of citations of scientific articles and downloads of the technical publications made available at the corporation’s web portal. As the paper shows, Embrapa’s 42 research centres do not all follow the same pattern in the production of scientific articles and citations, on the one hand, and of technical documents on the other (measured by downloads of manuals, bulletins and other publications). For this reason, Embrapa is beginning to tailor its system of performance assessment to the particularities of each centre, whether these involve the way the centre produces knowledge and technology or how it channels scholarly communication. The paper concludes that the development of suitable bibliometric indicators for managing centres dedicated to research and education requires a broad view of the centres themselves and can take on board such varied factors as institutional agreements, information flows and the ways in which science and society influence each other.

This paper will present the research results for the analysis of the presence and evolution of the term Business Process Management (BPM) in the period 2000-2020 using a literature review with bibliometric analysis. This research sought to evaluate the quantity and quality of empirical support for the use of this tool in organizations. This allowed the researchers to acknowledge and confirm this discipline as an important investigation domain with great potential for helping companies achieve strategic alignment between business and information and communication technologies in the future. The Science Mapping Workflow methodology was used with database and search criteria applied to a total of 1,706 articles related to the subject, which resulted in a total of 624 articles selected for further research. This study identifies the journals that have the most publications about BPM. It concludes that the most promising perspectives are the ones related to Management, Framework and Performance. Even though, from a conceptual viewpoint, performance is the most valued perspective. Lastly, this research is of great interest for academics and professionals who hope to strengthen their knowledge about the BPM concept and find the historical path and the main authors and issues that contribute to knowledge in this scientific field.

Virtual teaching-learning is a process that runs in the virtual spaces of the internet as an educational modality and is governed by Information and Communication Technologies. The objective of this review is to analyze the scientific activity of research works related to teaching-learning processes in the virtual modality during COVID-19. For the methodological design, a bibliometric analysis was carried out on the articles indexed in Scopus during COVID-19 (2020-2021) selecting 477 publications. As for the results, the most used keyword is Covid-19 (n = 292), the year 2021 is the one with the highest production in scientific publications with 306 documents, the United States is the country with the highest scientific production (n = 204) and the one with the highest intermediation between countries (n = 152), Medicine is the thematic area with the highest registration (n = 282), the Article was the type of publication with the highest use with 59,12%. In conclusion, even though COVID-19 surprised us with a virtual education that was not 100%, this modality has been improving rapidly throughout the pandemic for the benefit of the student-teacher.

Currently, educational systems around the world face the challenge of using Information and Communication Technologies to provide their students with the necessary tools and knowledge required in the 21st century. For this reason, the objective of this article is to determine the pedagogical contributions of technology in education. The proposed methodology is based on the reflection and epistemological analysis of the conceptual references, as a result of which a systematic bibliographic review was carried out, based on scientific and academic bases such as Scopus, PubMed, WoS and Google Scholar. One of the main findings is the incorporation of TIC in education since its function is to be a means and channel of communication and exchange of knowledge and experiences, in addition to generating instruments to process information, administrative management, source of resources, medium playful and cognitive development. In conclusion, concepts such as the use of Information and Communication Technologies and the tools they offer to optimize learning in education were incorporated, thus achieving future proposals around lines of research and practical applications for teachers and students.

this article presents a bibliometric analysis on the scientific production related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a tool for the social inclusion of deaf people. Objective: the objective of this study is to identify the trends and patterns of scientific production in this field of research, as well as to determine the most relevant countries, authors and publication sources. Methods: a systematic search was carried out in Scopus, using the keyword “deaf” combined with “worker” in the area of computing. 140 scientific publications that met the inclusion criteria were selected. Results: the results of the bibliometric analysis show a significant increase in the number of publications related to the use of ICT as a tool for social inclusion for deaf people from the year 2008. In addition, six countries responsible for 56 % of the production were identified. science: United States, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan and Spain. The most published author is Bigham Jeffrey P., affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University. The universities with the highest affiliation in the publications are Carnegie Mellon and Rochester Institute of Technology. Conclusions: this bibliometric analysis reveals a growing interest in the use of ICT as a tool for social inclusion for deaf people, and provides valuable information on the most relevant countries, authors and publication sources in the study area. The results suggest the need to continue research in this area and promote international collaboration to advance the social inclusion of deaf people.