A Bibliometric Investigation of Cloud Computing and Education Research
Azubuike Ansalem Ezenwoke, Oluwatosin Omosebi, Omotola Adedoyin Ezenwoke · Asian Journal of Scientific Research · 2019
The educational system comprises a variety of teaching and learning activities and these activities have also benefited from the adoption of cloud computing technologies.The aim of this study was to quantify and analyze the volume of research outputs chronicling the adoption of cloud computing in education using bibliometric methods.A bibliometric analysis was carried out on 840 documents published from 2011-2017 and retrieved from the SCOPUS database based on defined search terms relating to cloud computing and Education.The analysis results revealed that there was an increase of interests in cloud computing and education research since 2011.King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia was the most productive institution in this domain, whereas, China emerged as the country with the highest contribution to this cloud computing and education research.Mariya Shyshkina of National Academy of Sciences in Ukraine emerged as the most prolific author in cloud computing and education research.The trend of cloud computing and education research revealed it had a major impact on engineering education as well as, higher education than elementary and secondary school education.The publication trend in the domain of cloud computing and education portend growth in the future.