OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education is 36. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field	186
Students’ voices on generative AI: perceptions, benefits, and challenges in higher education	183
A comprehensive AI policy education framework for university teaching and learning	181
The impact of artificial intelligence on learner–instructor interaction in online learning	161
The effects of gender, educational level, and personality on online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic	144
Examining the key influencing factors on college students’ higher-order thinking skills in the smart classroom environment	122
Teachers’ digital competencies in higher education: a systematic literature review	121
An examination of teachers’ strategies to foster student engagement in blended learning in higher education	119
Emergency remote teaching in higher education: mapping the first global online semester	113
Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms	98
Adaptive e-learning environment based on learning styles and its impact on development students' engagement	96
Big data in education: a state of the art, limitations, and future research directions	94
Flipped classrooms in higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings and future research recommendations	88
The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education	88
Technology acceptance of four digital learning technologies (classroom response system, classroom chat, e-lectures, and mobile virtual reality) after three months’ usage	86
Past, present, and future of smart learning: a topic-based bibliometric analysis	82
Digital higher education: a divider or bridge builder? Leadership perspectives on edtech in a COVID-19 reality	81
Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review	70
The disconnected: COVID-19 and disparities in access to quality broadband for higher education students	70
Integration of artificial intelligence performance prediction and learning analytics to improve student learning in online engineering course	68
Chatbot to improve learning punctuation in Spanish and to enhance open and flexible learning environments	65
Learning analytics dashboard: a tool for providing actionable insights to learners	65
Artificial intelligence applications in Latin American higher education: a systematic review	64
Gamification and active learning in higher education: is it possible to match digital society, academia and students' interests?	64
Exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence and robots on higher education through literature-based design fictions	62

Shaping the future learning environments with smart elements: challenges and opportunities	58
Educational chatbots for project-based learning: investigating learning outcomes for a team-based design course	58
Integrating students’ perspectives about online learning: a hierarchy of factors	53
Benefits of immersive collaborative learning in CAVE-based virtual reality	52
AI-generated feedback on writing: insights into efficacy and ENL student preference	49
Acceptance of artificial intelligence among pre-service teachers: a multigroup analysis	45
The university students’ self-regulated effort, flexibility and satisfaction in distance education	43
Impact of students evaluation of teaching: a text analysis of the teachers qualities by gender	42
Learning analytics in higher education: a preponderance of analytics but very little learning?	39
Understanding students’ behavior in online social networks: a systematic literature review	37
A meta systematic review of artificial intelligence in higher education: a call for increased ethics, collaboration, and rigour	37
Multi-level analyses of distance education capacity, faculty members’ adaptation, and indicators of student satisfaction in higher education during COVID-19 pandemic	36
Gamification suffers from the novelty effect but benefits from the familiarization effect: Findings from a longitudinal study	36