Abstract Computers & Education has been leading the field of computers in education for over 40 years, during which time it has developed into a well-known journal with significant influences on the educational technology research community. Questions such as “in what research topics were the academic community of Computers & Education interested?” “how did such research topics evolve over time?” and “what were the main research concerns of its major contributors?” are important to both the editorial board and readership of Computers & Education. To address these issues, this paper conducted a structural topic modeling analysis of 3963 articles published in Computers & Education between 1976 and 2018 bibliometrically. A structural topic model was used to profile the research hotspots. By further exploring annual topic proportion trends and topic correlations, potential future research directions and inter-topic research areas were identified. The major research concerns of the publications in Computers & Education by prolific countries/regions were shown and compared. Thus, this work provided useful insights and implications, and it could be used as a guide for contributors to Computers & Education.

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使用结构主题建模检测教育技术中的潜在主题和趋势超过 40 年：所有计算机和教育卷的回顾

摘要 Computers & Education 40多年来一直引领教育计算机领域，在此期间已发展成为在教育技术研究界具有重大影响的知名期刊。诸如“计算机与教育学术界对哪些研究课题感兴趣？”之类的问题 “这些研究课题是如何随着时间演变的？” 以及“其主要贡献者的主要研究关注点是什么？” 对 Computers & Education 的编辑委员会和读者都很重要。为了解决这些问题，本文对 1976 年至 2018 年发表在 Computers & Education 上的 3963 篇文章进行了结构主题建模分析。使用结构主题模型来描述研究热点。通过进一步探索年度主题比例趋势和主题相关性，确定了潜在的未来研究方向和跨主题研究领域。显示和比较了多产国家/地区在计算机与教育领域的出版物的主要研究关注点。因此，这项工作提供了有用的见解和影响，可以用作计算机与教育贡献者的指南。