The Research Characteristics and Status on the Area of Educational Big Data from 2012-2019

Abstract

To explore the status on the area of educational big data, 476 related articles form the from Web of Science core collection were analyzed by CiteSpace V. The results show that: (1) the area of Educational Big Data stared in 2012 and shows an upward trend year by year form 2014-2018, and the number of publications reached the historical peak in 2018. Williamson and Huda, USA and China, Educational sciences theory practice and Agro food industry hi tech top the list of contributing authors, country and publication respectively. (2) "eHealth research", "current state", "corporate use" "data entry", "analytics discipline" and "psychological language" are the top six largest clusters on the area of educational big data from 2012-2019.