Visualizing Research in Educational Technology Leadership using CiteSpace

Abstract

Bibliometric review on educational technology leadership could help educators better understand the availability, timeliness, and reproducibility of literature in this field. This paper provides insights into academic publications on educational technology leadership from a visualizing bibliometric perspective, aiming at examining research focuses and trends. 339 articles were analyzed published between 2010 and 2020 using science mapping and presented in co-citation networks. Findings indicated that the research focuses of education technology leadership during this period were the influence of technology leadership on teaching and learning, technology integration, educational technology leadership strategies, and professional development training about technology. The results also revealed a consistent increase in academic interest regarding research trends of educational technology leadership. Although education technology leadership gained growing global attention due to the rapid development of educational technology, there is a gap in the amount of research from academic institutions between developed and developing countries. The authors proposed a research network of education technology leadership that connects technology leadership to several high-frequency relevant research factors. This article is beneficial for scholars to keep their knowledge of educational technology leadership up to date, which could give an overview of basic knowledge for further studies in this field.