A Bibliometric Analysis and Future Research Agenda; ICT Implementation Challenges in Education

Abstract

The current study is a bibliometric analysis of the literature on Challenges in ICT adoption at schools and it applies R- studio package Biblioshiny to analyse 1,381 articles from Scopus that has been published between 2000 up to April 2025. Results indicate that research in the ICT implementation area is on a growing trend and it shows an accelerating expansion from 2015 to 2017 and then there is deceleration during COVID-19 period. The developed countries: USA, UK, Spain and Malaysia have been the highest contributors and Nigeria becomes the top contributor as developing nation. This study identifies most influential universities are University of Granada, University of Hong Kong, and University Kembangan Malaysia has been dominate contributor in the field. Key journals in the field are Computers and Education, Education and Information Technologies, and Sustainability. The most citied articles are Pelgrum (2001), Ghavifekr & Rosdy (2015) and Albirini (2006). This study also highlights the prominent research trends, such as technology adoption, e-learning and mobile tools, sustainability, augmented reality and digital incompetence. Persistent issues concerning student achievement, teaching methods and school reform are still important. According to these results, ten future research questions are suggested with the aim of solving new problems and filling existing gaps in the domain through a focus on e-Learning technology, sustainability and digital divide in educational settings.