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Table 1 Inclusion and exclusion criteria for retrieving the dataset

From: Scientific production and thematic breakthroughs in smart learning environments: a bibliometric analysis

 

Code

Criteria

Comment

Inclusion criteria (IC)

IC 1

Articles containing one of the keywords in either title, abstract, or keywords.

This study conducted a search with five keywords concatenated with OR operator (see string combination above)

IC 2

Documents written in the English language

Only articles written in the English language were considered in this study.

IC 3

All date of publication

We did not specify date range since it is of interest to discover the trend of the field and when discussion among scholars began.

IC 4

Articles in journals, conferences, and book chapters

The search is focused on documents published in journals, conferences, book chapters only

Exclusion criteria (EC)

EC 1

Articles with publication stage “in press.”

Only final articles that have been successfully published were considered in this study.

EC 2

Articles whose source is a trade journal

This study considered articles from trade journals irrelevant since they do not go through the peer-review process. Trade journals are articles written majorly to educate, inform, or promote certain trade or industry. They are either published online or in newspapers and magazines.