Impact of scientific productivity on digital competence of future teachers: bibliometric approach on Scopus and Web of Science

Abstract

Digital competence can be understood as a set of essential skills that everyone must have developed by the end of the basic studies, as a requirement for lifelong learning and to get better future employment. The scientific interest projected in this subject has created different investigations, which are done with diverse populations. In this case, the present study aims to analyze the scientific production with the greatest impact on digital competence in teacher training in the field of higher education. To do this, eight combined searches were conducted using different keywords in two databases of international relevance: Scopus and Web of Science. The data were analyzed according to ten variables: year of publication, document type, journal or book where the paper is indexed, most productive authors, institutions, countries, subject area, keywords, language and most cited papers. The results show an overview of research on digital competence in future teachers. The highest scientific production is in recent years (2014-2017). There is a strong line of research that is published mainly through proceedings and articles in journals, written in English and that places Spain as the country that has conducted more research on this topic.