OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 40. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	124
Students’ perceptions on distance education: A multinational study	123
Development of a new model on utilizing online learning platforms to improve students’ academic achievements and satisfaction	105
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	103
Examining the key influencing factors on college students’ higher-order thinking skills in the smart classroom environment	94
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	85
Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms	85
Big data in education: a state of the art, limitations, and future research directions	81
University teachers' perception of barriers to the use of digital technologies: the importance of the academic discipline	80
A balancing act: a window into online student engagement experiences	80
The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	79
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	77
Can artificial intelligence transform higher education?	71
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	65
Prerequisites for artificial intelligence in further education: identification of drivers, barriers, and business models of educational technology companies	62
Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis	62
Technology acceptance of four digital learning technologies (classroom response system, classroom chat, e-lectures, and mobile virtual reality) after three months’ usage	61
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	60
Digital divide among higher education faculty	59
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	58
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	55
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	55
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	49
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	47
Simulation-based education involving online and on-campus models in different European universities	47

Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	47
Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors	47
Precision education with statistical learning and deep learning: a case study in Taiwan	46
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	46
Testing of support tools for plagiarism detection	46
LMS-enabled blended learning utilization in distance tertiary education: establishing the relationships among facilitating conditions, voluntariness of use and use behaviour	45
The benefits and caveats of using clickstream data to understand student self-regulatory behaviors: opening the black box of learning processes	45
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	44
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	44
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and robots on higher education through literature-based design fictions	43
Recommender systems to support learners’ Agency in a Learning Context: a systematic review	42
Does sociability quality of web-based collaborative learning information system influence students’ satisfaction and system usage?	41
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	41
Improving online video lectures: learning challenges created by media	41
Teaching analytics, value and tools for teacher data literacy: a systematic and tripartite approach	40