Smart Pedagogy: A Bibliometric Analysis

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the evolution and trends in research in the smart pedagogy area by using analysis tools and approaches of bibliometric analysis. Smart pedagogy is a set of innovative teaching strategies, methods and practices to provide smart features—adaptation, sensing, inferring, self-learning, anticipation and self-optimization—for educational processes, objects, and teaching/learning environment. This study methodically compiles and examines data sourced from various academic publications in the Scopus database and affiliated sources, ranging from journal articles to conference proceedings. The bibliometric analysis was conducted using a set of the following keywords: “Smart Pedagogy”, “Smart Education”, “Smart Learning”, “Smart Teaching”, “Smart Learning Environments”, “Smart Learning Analytics”, “Smart e-Learning”, “Smart Educational Systems”, “Smart Educational Technology”, and “Smart Assessment”. Limit-To-Language parameter was assigned as “English”. A total of 2382 documents, related to the smart pedagogy area were identified in Scopus database and analyzed for this project. The publications cover the time period from 1982 to 2023. A bibliometric analysis was carried out using the Scopus toolkit. VOSviewer was applied as a visualization tool to generate visualization network maps, including visualization network maps of co-authorship, countries and keywords.