1 Introduction
Category | Description |
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Customer | Providing an experience where customers view the organization as their digital partner using their preferred channels of interaction to control their connected future on and offline |
Strategy | Focuses on how the business transforms or operates to increase its competitive advantage through digital initiatives; it is embedded within the overall business strategy |
Technology | Underpins digital strategy's success by creating, processing, storing, securing, and exchanging data to meet the customers' needs at low cost and low overheads |
Operations | Executing and evolving processes and tasks by utilizing digital technologies to drive strategic management and enhance business efficiency and effectiveness |
Organization & Culture | Defining and developing an organizational culture with governance and talent processes to support progress along the digital maturity curve and flexibly achieve growth and innovation objectives |
Categories | |
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• Digital pedagogies: adapting pedagogical and technological resources to each area of knowledge. An example is b-learning, an environment with multimedia technologies | |
• Technology models: integrating innovation models with technology, such as smart innovation systems, research-based design | |
• Adaptive technologies: introduce new e-learning systems that adapt to the new needs of society; foster adaptive learning and educational systems (e.g., e-portfolios and Web 2.0) | |
• Open technologies: enable open access for the dissemination of open knowledge, including open platforms, repositories, open resources, MOOCs, and open science | |
• Smart technologies: use smart tools and devices, such as Big Data, data mining, data analytics, cloud technologies, cloud computing in educational contexts, m-learning | |
• Disruptive technologies: involve new processes and services with leapfrog technologies, such as augmented reality, sensory stimulation, abstract imagery, virtual and remote laboratories |
2 Research questions
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RQ1: How many studies are in the Scopus and WoS databases between 2015 and 2020, and what is their design?
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RQ2: What are the most cited articles?
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RQ3: What is the geographical distribution of the authors?
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RQ4: Which are the journals with the largest publications on this topic?
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RQ5: How are digital transformation studies classified?
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RQ6: What are the trends and topics addressed by the articles?
3 Method
3.1 Definition of research questions
3.2 Search process
3.3 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
3.4 Selection Process and Data Extraction
3.5 Data Synthesis
Research Question | Type of Answer sought |
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RQ1: How many studies are in the Scopus and Web of Science databases between 2015 and 2020, and what is their design? | No. of articles in Scopus No. of articles in Web of Science No. of theoretical-conceptual articles No. of empirical research articles No. of mixed methods articles |
RQ2: What are the most cited articles? | Most cited articles |
RQ3: What is the geographical distribution of the authors? | Countries of the first authors |
RQ4: Which are the journals with the largest publications on this topic? | Q1, Q2, Q3 or Q4, ESCI, No rank Open Access |
RQ5: How are digital transformation studies classified? | Customer Strategy Technology Operations Organization and culture |
RQ6: What are the trends and topics addressed by the articles? | Technology models Digital pedagogies Open technologies Adaptive technologies Disruptive technologies Intelligent technologies |
Search strings in Scopus | Search strings in WoS |
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(TITLE-ABS-KEY (("digital transformation" OR "digital*")) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( "university" OR "higher education" OR "tertiary education")) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( "model" OR "framework" OR "system")) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY ( ( "media literacy" OR "digital competenc*" OR "digital literacy"))) AND DOCTYPE ( ar) AND PUBYEAR > 2014 | TOPIC: ((“digital transformation” OR "digital*")) AND TOPIC: (( "university" OR "higher education" OR "tertiary education")) AND TOPIC: (( "model" OR "framework" OR "system")) AND TOPIC: (( "media literacy" OR "digital competenc*" OR "digital literacy")) |
Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
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Studies indexed in the Scopus and WoS databases | Studies that do not address digital transformation |
Studies on digital transformation and media literacy | Proceedings, papers or early access or review |
Scientific articles | Articles that have not been published in high-impact journals |
Articles published in high-impact journals | |
Articles published during 2015–2020 | Articles not published during 2015–2020 |
Articles on studies related to Higher Education | Articles published in Russian, German, Malay, Portuguese, Hungarian, Ukrainian |
Articles on studies related to frameworks proposals |
4 Results
4.1 RQ1 How many studies are in the Scopus and WOS databases between 2015 and 2020, and what is their design?
4.2 RQ2 What are the most cited articles?
Number of citations | Identification number of the cited articles |
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59 | 255 |
40 | 296 |
39 | 291 |
34 | 287 |
31 | 208 |
26 | 193, 277 |
25 | 250 |
24 | 271, 290 |
22 | 292 |
20 | 294 |
18 | 195, 266, 293 |
17 | 142, 246, 281 |
16 | 136 |
15 | 210 |
14 | 217, 249, 278 |
13 | 283 |
12 | 253, 274 |
11 | 33, 183, 265, 268 |
10 | 192, 207, 211, 222, 227, 256 |
9 | 165, 173, 203, 223, 240 |
8 | 8, 40, 137, 189, 235, 238, 248, 264 |
7 | 112, 114, 251, 280, 285, 295 |
6 | 157, 191, 214, 245, 252, 259, 279, 288 |
5 | 54, 117, 126, 148, 166, 167, 186, 194, 215, 270, 272, 282 |
4 | 34, 70, 161, 205, 220, 236, 269, 289 |
3 | 48, 121, 122, 124, 134, 140, 144, 146, 147, 159, 164, 196, 202, 204, 216, 231, 233, 257, 267, 275 |
2 | 13, 22, 23, 31, 37, 46, 50, 74, 79, 106, 113, 119, 130, 145, 153, 163, 171, 181, 184, 185, 197, 199, 209, 213, 226, 228, 232, 234, 239, 241, 247, 258, 260, 284 |
1 | 4, 18, 19, 39, 47, 62, 66, 83, 96, 102, 110, 111, 115, 123, 125, 128, 132, 133, 135, 138, 139, 141, 143, 151, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 169, 170, 172, 176, 178, 180, 188, 190, 198, 212, 218, 219, 224, 263, 276, 298 |
0 | 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 35, 36, 38, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85, 9 |
4.3 R3. What is the geographical distribution of the authors?
4.4 RQ4: Which are the journals with the most publications on this subject?
Journal | Database | Quartile | Number of articles | Article identification number |
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Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy | Scopus | Q2 | 14 | 11, 74, 181, 197, 212, 241, 243, 245, 257, 258, 269, 275, 283, 298 |
Sustainability | Scopus | Q2 | 8 | 7, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 130, 189 |
Research in Learning Technology | Scopus | Q2 | 7 | 75, 83, 170, 206, 280, 285, 294 |
Revista Latinoamericana de Tecnologia Educativa-RELATEC | WoS | ESCI | 6 | 43, 90, 146, 173, 208, 210 |
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology | Scopus | Q1 | 5 | 47, 49, 51, 54, 172 |
Italian Journal of Sociology of Education | Scopus | Q4 | 5 | 132, 139, 246, 247, 248 |
Education Sciences | Scopus | Q3 | 5 | 3, 131, 138, 202, 204 |
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education | Scopus | Q1 | 5 | 157, 191, 193, 235, 266 |
International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning | Scopus | Q3 | 5 | 76, 85, 147, 186, 251 |
Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association | Scopus | Q3 | 4 | 42, 46, 220, 264 |
Journal of Siberian Federal University—Humanities and Social Sciences | Scopus | Q3 | 4 | 57, 59, 152, 158 |
Electronic Journal of e-Learning | Scopus | Q2 | 4 | 84, 101, 267, 277 |
EDMETIC | WoS | ESCI | 4 | 151, 153, 179, 198 |
Prisma Social | Scopus | Q3 | 3 | 73, 154, 162 |
Reference Services Review | Scopus | Q2 | 3 | 45, 128, 196 |
Reading Teacher | Scopus | Q1 | 3 | 111, 256, 270 |
Internet and Higher Education | Scopus | Q1 | 3 | 33, 34, 290 |
Computers and Education | Scopus | Q1 | 3 | 18, 268, 291 |
Comunicar | Scopus | Q1 | 3 | 161, 165, 167 |
International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning | Scopus | Q1 | 3 | 234, 255, 281 |
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology | Scopus | Q3 | 3 | 237, 274, 297 |
Quartile | Articles | Total |
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Q1 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 18, 20, 21, 24, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 54, 68, 77, 82, 94, 96, 105, 106, 111, 126, 137, 140, 142, 148, 157,161 165, 167, 172, 191, 193, 194, 209, 211, 217, 221, 233, 234, 235, 255, 256, 259, 263, 266, 268, 270, 271, 278, 281, 287, 290, 291, 293 | 58 |
Q2 | 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 27, 37, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 55, 64, 65, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 83, 84, 88, 98, 101, 115, 116, 118, 128, 129, 130, 134, 135, 169, 170, 176, 178, 181, 184, 189, 195, 196, 197, 205, 206, 212, 213, 214, 216, 222, 227, 228, 230, 231, 240, 241, 243, 245, 249, 250, 254, 257, 258, 265, 267, 269, 272, 275, 277, 279, 280, 282, 283, 284, 285, 288, 289, 292, 294, 296, 298 | 85 |
Q3 | 3, 29, 30, 38, 42, 46, 48, 52, 57, 58, 59, 61, 66, 67, 73, 76, 80, 81, 85, 87, 91, 110, 113, 114, 120, 127, 131, 133, 136, 138, 143, 145, 147, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 159, 160, 162, 166, 182, 183, 186, 187, 188, 190, 199, 202, 204, 215, 218, 220, 223, 225, 226, 232, 237, 239, 244, 251, 252, 260, 264, 273, 274, 286, 295, 297 | 70 |
Q4 | 12, 15, 32, 63, 69, 92, 104, 108, 121, 123, 124, 132, 139, 141, 174, 175, 219, 224, 229, 236, 242, 246, 247, 248, 253, 261, 262, 276 | 28 |
ESCI | 10, 17, 28, 31, 41, 43, 56, 60, 62, 78, 79, 86, 89, 90, 93, 95, 97, 100, 102, 107, 109, 112, 117, 119, 122, 125, 144, 146, 149, 151, 153, 155, 163, 168, 171, 173, 177, 179, 180, 185, 192, 198, 200, 203, 208, 210 | 46 |
No rank | 9, 25, 26, 44, 53, 99, 103, 164, 201, 207, 238 | 11 |