Scientific Production on Open Educational Resources, 2008-2014

115 articles on Open Educational Resources in higher education, published by 243 researchers in 43 journals between 2008 and 2014. The dataset was compiled by Jimena de Mello Heredia from the Web of Science and analyzed using mixed descriptive and content analysis methods. The corpus includes 109 full-text articles categorized into seven themes, with a focus on journals related to education.

Use Cases

• Analyzing publication trends and growth in OER research based on the 2008-2014 time range
• Studying the distribution of research across academic disciplines based on the author area percentages (e.g., 48% Education, 22% Computing)
• Mapping institutional and geographic contributions to OER literature based on mentions of institutions in the UK, Spain, and Canada
• Categorizing research themes and focus areas based on the seven identified categories (e.g., recovery/repositories, challenges, technologies)

Strengths

• Defined corpus of 115 articles from a known source (Web of Science)
• Clear temporal coverage from 2008 to 2014
• Includes quantitative breakdowns such as 67% of journals being paid access and 56% of articles being restricted access
• Qualitative analysis of 109 full-text articles categorized into seven specific themes

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified
• Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to the Web of Science indexing

Provenance

Source

paperswithcode

Collection Method

Articles were identified from journals indexed in the Web of Science and analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis.

Time Range

2008-2014

Geography

Institutions primarily in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Canada are mentioned.