A bibliometric analysis of digital literacy research and emerging themes pre-during COVID-19 pandemic

IF 1.6 Q2 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Information and Learning Sciences Pub Date : 2022-03-02 DOI:10.1108/ils-10-2021-0090

H. Baber, Mina Fanea-Ivanovici, Yoo-Taek Lee, Hasan Tinmaz

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Abstract

Purpose Digital literacy is not the mere ability to use a digital device or know to use various software. It is a domain of exploration for sociology, psychology, education and, of course, technology. This study aims to present a quantitative analysis of the literature on digital literacy using a bibliometric approach. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the Web of Science database, the importance of the research is evaluated by reviewing 2307 publications and examining the yearly publication, field category productivity, citation structure, most cited resources, documents, most-cited authors, most productive authors, and country in the field of digital literacy. Further, a cluster analysis is conducted to see the most recurrent keywords and emerging trends in this field. At last, the authors analyzed the thematic progression of keywords over these five years based on the normalized citations. Additionally, a graphical representation of the bibliometric data using VOSviewer is presented in the paper. Findings The results suggest a steady rate of publication in this field, with most of the research published in education and library fields and the USA leading the country in this realm. The emerging themes in this field are ‘Fake News’, ‘Competence’, ‘Educational Technology’, ‘Health Literacy’, ‘Self-Efficacy’ and, interestingly, ‘COVID-19’. The results also revealed that COVID-19 has been examined and associated with fake news, higher education, social media and information literacy. Originality/value This paper provides an overall summary of the most recent research work published from 2017 to 2021 on digital literacy in the backdrop of COVID-19. The study presents the thematic progression over the years and particularly the new keywords that emerged in the limelight of the pandemic. It contributes by updating the existing body of knowledge in the field of digital literacy and presents preliminary results related to COVID-19.

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2019冠状病毒病大流行前数字扫盲研究和新兴主题的文献计量分析

数字素养不仅仅是使用数字设备或知道使用各种软件的能力。它是社会学、心理学、教育学，当然还有技术的探索领域。本研究旨在使用文献计量学方法对数字素养的文献进行定量分析。设计/方法/方法使用Web of Science数据库的数据，通过审查2307份出版物，并检查年度出版物、领域类别生产力、引文结构、被引用最多的资源、文献、被引用最多的作者、最多产的作者和数字素养领域的国家，来评估研究的重要性。此外，还进行了聚类分析，以查看该领域中最常出现的关键词和新兴趋势。最后，在归一化引用的基础上，分析了近五年来关键词的主题变化趋势。此外，本文还利用VOSviewer对文献计量数据进行了图形化表示。研究结果表明，这一领域的发表率稳定，大多数研究发表在教育和图书馆领域，美国在这一领域处于领先地位。该领域的新主题是“假新闻”、“能力”、“教育技术”、“健康素养”、“自我效能”，有趣的是，还有“COVID-19”。研究结果还显示，新冠肺炎与假新闻、高等教育、社交媒体和信息素养有关。本文全面总结了2017年至2021年在2019冠状病毒病背景下发表的关于数字扫盲的最新研究工作。该研究报告介绍了多年来的主题进展情况，特别是在大流行的聚光灯下出现的新关键词。它的贡献是更新数字扫盲领域的现有知识体系，并介绍与COVID-19相关的初步成果。

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Information and Learning Sciences INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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9.50

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期刊介绍： Information and Learning Sciences advances inter-disciplinary research that explores scholarly intersections shared within 2 key fields: information science and the learning sciences / education sciences. The journal provides a publication venue for work that strengthens our scholarly understanding of human inquiry and learning phenomena, especially as they relate to design and uses of information and e-learning systems innovations.