Managing ICT for Pedagogical Innovation: A Bibliometric Study in Higher and Management Education

Abstract

This paper provides a detailed bibliometric review of the world academic publications in 2019-2022 that include 4,199 documents in 997 sources and 22,335 authors. This field has also shown an explosive growth (186.91%/year), and the largest contribution to the growth was made by pandemic-related research, with the thematic center becoming the COVID-19. China and the USA dominated publication volumes (3,344 and 4,533 articles, respectively), and such institutions as Fudan University and Applied Science University increased the volumes of publications in 2022 without any previous records. The international collaboration increased to a great extent with Switzerland (63.6) and the UAE (100) having the highest multi-country co-authorship rates. Thematic mapping identified the following motor themes: covid-19, risk, and management, whereas the network analysis showed interdisciplinary convergence of health, modeling, and machine learning. Patterns of citations showed a decreasing impact per article although the output increased, which is an indication of quality over quantity. Geographically, the concentration of research was very concentrated in North America, Western Europe and East Asia, leaving a substantial part of the global south underrepresented.