Open AccessINTERDISCIPLINARITY IN ONLINE TEACHING AND LEARNING RESEARCH: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY
Author(s) -
Brady Lund,
Ting Wang,
Beth Hendrickson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of educators online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.499
H-Index - 16
ISSN - 1547-500X
DOI - 10.9743/jeo.2021.18.1.3
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , bibliometrics , the internet , educational research , higher education , interdisciplinarity , educational technology , social science , sociology , mathematics education , library science , computer science , pedagogy , psychology , political science , world wide web , pure mathematics , law , mathematics
This study examines the interdisciplinarity of the field of online teaching and learning research using a framework for the bibliometric assessment of the interdisciplinarity of scholarly journals, adapted from the work of Imad Al-Sabbagh, as captured in the journal The Internet and Higher Education, a top-cited journal in this field. It analyzed the citations (n = 21854) for all articles published in the history of the journal and presents findings for the complete history of the journal and trends throughout the history of the journal. The findings indicate that online learning and teaching research is a highly interdisciplinary field that builds on research from dozens of disciplines.