Abstract
In this paper, Engineering Education as a discipline has been analyzed by taking IEEE Transactions on Education (IEEE T Educ) as a case; to examine the various trends that have been emerging over time. Based on various criteria of authorship and citation, an effort is made to highlight the main contributors or top authors of this engineering education community. It was found that authorship trends have been shifting more towards collaboration. It was also found that the authorship community is growing, both in terms of publications and publishing authors. Study of citation patterns during the last decade, reveals a high citation count per article, which indicates a high readership of this journal. Later, the study of authorship and citation patterns shed light on the trend that multi-author articles are cited more often than single-author articles. This study was compared with earlier studies in the field of Engineering Education Research (EER) using keyword analysis and temporal evolution and distribution of keywords. Additionally key-phrase and topic modeling was performed to identify leading and evolving research areas within the EER., Analysis of word co-occurrence was performed to discover the main context in which the keywords have been used. Lastly, topic modeling techniques were applied for probabilistic distributions of IEEE topics and the results were in line with earlier studies.
Highlights
This paper aims to address the following questions: Who are the main contributors to IEEE? How are the authorship trends changing over time? Can citation be associated with collaboration? What themes have been explored in the past, and what are the emerging themes in this journal? What have been the topics of highly cited publications?
The keyword curriculum made to the top list for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) in [7,8] between the years 1993-2002, Using the key-phrase analysis, it was found that curriculum has been used in the context of engineering curriculum, undergraduate curriculum, curriculum planning, design and development, Elect
The structure and content of the publications of IEEE T Educ served as a guideline for the analysis
Summary
The body of literature in engineering education (EE) is growing substantially and reaching a point where a detailed historical analysis could provide insights and moments for reflection. While such analysis is useful and already conducted for the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) [7,8], for the International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education (IJEEE) [9] and on a larger scale for the entire field of EE [10]; meaningful analysis of a journal such as IEEE T Educ carries numerous additional benefits: (1) Results might be used to recognize key topics and actors in the community. Analyzing IEEE T Educ provides insights into the journal itself, and a historical window into the history of the emerging discipline of EE and EER
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