Author(s)

Chuan Xue, Wei He^*

School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.

This study adopted the bibliometric method to visually analyze 844 articles of TPACK from 2009 to 2020 in core collection database of Web of Science (WOS). The Visual analysis is conducted on the authors, research organizations, articles and keywords using CiteSpace to explore research hotspots and trends in research of TPACK in WOS. This paper reveals the most influential authors and institutions, highly cited articles, research hotspots and trends of TPACK research. The findings show that the research on TPACK has been moving forward and making significant development. The core author Ching Sing Chai of Nanyang Technological University is a typical representative, having published lots of influential articles. Nanyang Technological University is also the most influential institution. We can see that not only TPACK and PCK are the hotspots of research, but also “digital competence”, “educational technology” and “learning by design” are hot research topics. “Learning activity”, “professional knowledge”, “pedagogical model”, “teaching materials” are all the research trends of TPACK. Researchers are likely to integrate TPACK with more disciplines to enhance the applicability of TPACK and enlarge the research scope of TPACK in the future.

TPACK, TPCK, Hotspots, Trends, CiteSpace

Xue, C. and He, W. (2021) Research Hotspots and Trends on TPACK in WOS Based on Visual Analysis. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9, 305-321. doi: 10.4236/jss.2021.92021.