Perspectives on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Education: a Bibliometric Review

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has seen significant advances in recent years and represents an emerging technology that has revolutionized the way humans live. This technology is already being introduced in the field of education, although many teachers are unaware of its scope and, above all, of what it consists. Therefore, the present study shows the global production of scientific literature on artificial intelligence and education in the Scopus database between 1976 and August 2023. A sample of 1,280 documents was extracted from 612 sources. The results reveal a predominance of original research articles. As for the author with the greatest impact, Gwoyen Hwang stands out with an h-Index of 74 and more than 20 thousand citations in general. The most cited article is “Systematic review of research on artificial intelligence applications in higher education – where are the educators”, and the magazine Lecture Notes in Computer Science is the most productive source. Among the countries of origin of studies on AI and education, China stands out with the highest number of publications, as well as the highest impact index on the subject.