"To summarize the key findings, a 'typical' edtech HCA is a Western-based review article or quantitative research paper reporting positive findings from higher education, published in a high-impact factor general edtech journal by a major publisher." Not a surprise, but there's more than a little circularity evident in this research. It begins with a presumption that "the vast majority of articles are published in peer-reviewed academic journals," which is probably not true (consider the alternatives: magazines and newspapers, consultant reports, trade journals, corporate white papers, blogs, discussion boards, etc). The article does not include "the 200 absolutely most cited papers" and instead "identified 10 major journals... and selected the 20 most cited articles from each of them." The analysis "was guided by an abductive approach," that is, 'inference to the best explanation'. And that's how you get the 'findings' above.
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