Thematic analysis of the international journal of educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE) between 2004 and 2017
Correspondence: jduart@uoc.edu Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Introduction It gives us great pleasure to be able to use this editorial to present a thematic analysis of the articles published in the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (ETHE) since it began back in 2004. The study uses the articles published in the 14 years of the journal's history (2004 2017) to show what research was carried out in the field of educational technology in higher education in this period. This qualitative analysis could be considered to be complementary to the bibliometric analysis between 2004 and 2013 (Ramiro, Ramiro Sanchez, Alba Ruiz, 2014) Although we cannot say that the study reflects all the areas of research covered during this period given that, as with any other journal of its kind, the articles published have to have passed a peer review process and fit with the topic of the special issues proposed by the editors, but the results do show that the areas of research and the subjects covered in the articles published correspond to the research carried out in the field as a whole over the same period (Hsu, Hung, Ching, 2013) As in previous studies with other journals in the field Edutec e (Marin, Zawacki Richter, Perez Garcias, Salinas, 2017) IRRODL (Zawacki Richter, Alturki, Aldraiweesh, 2017) or Distance Education (Zawacki Richter Naidu, 2016) the key themes covered in the publications over this period and the semantic relationships among these themes were explored with the text mining tool LeximancerTM.
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