Visualizing Knowledge, Research Areas, and Trends in Digital Literacy from 2005 to 2024
Keywords:
Digital Literacy, Information Literacy, Digital Competence, COVID-19, Scientometrics, Annual Growth Rate (AGR), Doubling Time (DT), VOSviewer, BiblioshinyAbstract
This paper aims to conduct a scientometric analysis of the literature in digital literacy, published from 2005 to 2024 in peer-reviewed journals. Data is extracted from the Scopus database. A total of 9043 articles was chosen for the extraction of the bibliographic data for the period 2005 to 2024. Then, MS Excel was used to find annual performance growth, VOSviewer was used to generate the co-authorship map and authors’ keyword co-occurrence networks, and Biblioshiny was run to create a three-field plot. The findings revealed that publications show an upward trajectory. A total of 9043 articles generated 97047 citations from 2005 to 2024, where the year 2024 has the highest number of publications of 1701 articles. Furthermore, the article “The relation between 21st-century skills and digital skills: A systematic literature review” has the highest citation of 1029, published in 2017. The key contributors are Rusudan Makhachashvili (23 publications) as a researcher, Deakin University, situated in Australia (14 publications) and organization, and the United States (1763 publications) as a country. Furthermore, “ACM International Conference Proceeding Series” is the source journal with 162 publications. The topmost keywords authors use are digital literacy, COVID-19, and digital divide. The study concludes the growing interest of various stakeholders in digital literacy. This study offers valuable insights into the current trends of the articles published in the domain of digital literacy by mapping the articles using the VOSviewer.
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