Global trends on open educational resources literature: A scientometric analysis

Abstract

As the open educational resources (OER) are becoming an extremely important role in the educational process, this scientometric analysis took place on literature on OER, the dataset analyzed was retrieved from SCOPUS database, defined by the time span of 2004-2022, and analyzed using the scientometric analysis tool Scientopy.

The study found that articles had the highest average growth rate (AGR) with 7.5, additionally, the United States came first as the most productive country regarding OER literature, with a 3.6 of AGR. The keyword “open educational resources” was the most trending keyword overall between 2004-2006. However, upon analyzing the time window 2019-2022, it has been found that there’s a shift in trends on OER literature into “adapting” OER and its practices in higher education