This paper aims to identify emerging fronts and hot topics in educational research. The identification of such educational trends can help decision-makers in educational policies and research agendas.,Through a quantitative and scientometric research approach, the authors analyze a sample of 198 highly cited scientific papers extracted from Web of Science corresponding to the 2012-2016 period using a co-verbal analysis to process the papers’ keywords and titles. The result of the co-occurrence analysis is further processed to generate clusters and visualize network maps that allow identifying the different emerging fronts and hot topics.,The results indicate that there exist pervasive and generalist topics, thus denoting the perennial nature of some themes within the education research discipline; which coexist with other more specific themes that center the focus of attention in more specific and actual topics that also attract the interest of researchers as technology, assessment, strategies or environment. These emergent fronts could conform a plausible research agenda educational research agenda.,The authors contribute a method to infer emerging fronts and hot topics of research and have used it to identify the novel avenues of educational research that may guide the agendas in the near future. In the scientific literature, they find studies and reports on fronts and topics mainly within the broader framework of social sciences. Here, the main focus of attention is placed on education as a scientific discipline on its own.

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推断热门话题和新兴的教育研究前沿

本文旨在确定教育研究中出现的前沿领域和热门话题。这样的教育趋势的识别可以帮助决策者制定教育政策和研究议程。通过定量和科学计量研究方法，作者分析了从Web of Science摘录的2012年至2016年期间被引用的198篇高被引科学论文的样本。使用语音分析来处理论文的关键字和标题。共现分析的结果经过进一步处理以生成聚类并可视化网络图，从而可以识别不同的新兴前沿和热门话题。结果表明，存在普遍性和通俗性的主题，从而表明了其中某些主题的长期性教育研究学科；与其他更具体的主题共存，这些主题将注意力集中在更具体和实际的主题上，这些主题也吸引了研究人员对技术，评估，策略或环境的兴趣。这些新兴领域可能符合一个合理的研究议程教育研究议程。作者们提供了一种方法来推断新兴领域和研究热点，并用它来确定可以在不久的将来指导议程的教育研究的新途径。在科学文献中，他们主要在更广泛的社会科学框架内找到有关前沿和主题的研究和报告。在这里，注意力的主要焦点放在作为一门科学学科的教育上。