A Scientometric Journey Through the FIE Bookshelf: 1982-2020

A Scientometric Journey Through the FIE Bookshelf : 1982-2020

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IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education turned 50 at the 2020 virtual conference in Uppsala, Sweden. This paper presents an historical retrospective on the first 50 years of the conference from a scientometric perspective. That is to say, we explore the evolution of the conference in terms of prolific authors, communities of co-authorship, clusters of topics, and internationalization, as the conference transcended its largely provincial US roots to become a truly international forum through which to explore the frontiers of educational research and practice. The paper demonstrates the significance of FIE for a core of 30% repeat authors, many of whom have been members of the community and regular contributors for more than 20 years. It also demonstrates that internal citation rates are low, and that the co-authoring networks remain strongly dominated by clusters around highly prolific authors from a few well known US institutions. We conclude that FIE has truly come of age as an international venue for publishing high quality research and practice papers, while at the same time urging members of the community to be aware of prior work published at FIE, and to consider using it more actively as a foundation for future advances in the field.

Tedre, MattiUniv Eastern Finland, Sch Comp, Kuopio, Finland. (author)
Lopez-Pernas, SonsolesUniv Politecn Madrid, Dept Ingn Sistemas Telemat, Madrid, Spain. (author)
Saqr, MohammedUniv Turku, Dept Comp, Turku, Finland. (author)
Daniels, MatsUppsala Univ, Dept Informat Technol, Uppsala, Sweden. (author)
Pears, Arnold,Professor,1964-KTH,Lärande(Swepub:kth)u19pzctn (author)
Univ Turku, Dept Comp, Turku, Finland.Univ Eastern Finland, Sch Comp, Kuopio, Finland. (creator_code:org_t)

In:2021 IEEE frontiers in education conference (FIE 2021): Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

By the author/editor: Apiola, Mikko; Tedre, Matti; Lopez-Pernas, So ...; Saqr, Mohammed; Daniels, Mats; Pears, Arnold, P ...

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