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comprehensive and effective.
Our research has constructed an evaluation model of academic paper impact based on Altmetrics.
As a complement to traditional evaluation model,the model can play the role of predicting highly
cited papers.

Trends of research topics in the technology education:A citation analysis from
1994 to 2013

FANG Yushen ①a *

In recent years,the rapid progress of technology has led to the common research themes focusing
on technology trends to predict future product contention in order to maintain the advantage in
the fierce market competition. The research topics takes the technology development as the core
often ignores the role of “technology education”,and also highlights the low level concern about
technology education.
In order to observe the past to foresee the future,this study conducted a citation analysis to
explore the development status of technology education research in the past two decades (1994-
2013). The analyzed samples were taken from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI),Science
Citation Index (SCI),and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) in Web of Science (WoS)
database. The total documents were 1 009 articles and 30 825 citations,which were filtered from
1 196 articles. The results of this study are as follows:1)The number of research documents had
constantly increased - the every-five-year phase growth rates are 85.45% (Phases I-II),62.26%
(Phases II-III) and 55.79% (Phases III-IV),respectively; 2) The keywords cited were shifted
from the field of vocational training to the fields of technology teacher education as well as
engineering and creativity; 3)The highly cited journals were Journal of Technology and Teacher
Education (JTTE),Journal of Engineering Education (JEE)which is not included in SCI,SSCI
or A&HCI and the areas of journals cited were shifted from technical and vocational education to
design and technology,engineering,education,and technology teacher; 4)In the phases I-IV,the
subject categories include:economic,technical and vocational,legal,professional and educational;
5)The most cited authors and organizations were from the United States; 6)Technology education
was in connection with vocational and technical,business,science,engineering,mathematics,and
multidisciplinary.
For limitations,the study mainly collected from WoS database and only focused on four
dimensions:keywords,highly-cited journals,literature works,and authors to analyze. On the
other hand,Journal Citation Reports system didn’t include general journals. Thus the research
can only be limited to do the analysis according to the Impact Factor of SCI and SSCI and journal

* Correspondence should be addressed to FANG Yushen,Email:fang.yushen@gmail.com,ORCID:0000-0002-8248-8585