Paper Title :Contributing Authors of Research Articles by Countries in Four Leading Educational Technology Journals

Author :Balakrishnan Muniand

Article Citation :Balakrishnan Muniand , (2017 ) " Contributing Authors of Research Articles by Countries in Four Leading Educational Technology Journals " , International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS) , pp. 70-74, Volume-3,Issue-1, Special Issue-1

Abstract : The main purpose of this article to identify the main contributors of educational technology research articles published by four leading educational technology journals from around the world. The findings presented in this article is a part of a larger study on epistemological and methodological analysis of educational technology research published in one year. 244 educational technology articles published in the four leading journals in 2013 were downloaded and analyzed by content analysis procedure to determine the composition of contributors of research articles by countries. One of the major finding of this study is that although the journals are of international standards, most of the articles published are by authors of the parent country where the articles are published. The findings also show the composition of authors cumulatively for all the four journals as well as by each journals independently. Index Terms- Educational Technology, Educational technology Journals, Content Analysis.

Type : Research paper

Published : Volume-3,Issue-1, Special Issue-1

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