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Emerging Trends in Educational Podcast Research: A Bibliometric Analysis with Insights from Agricultural Domains
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Podcasting has become a popular educational media due to its flexible, portable nature and support for self-directed learning. This study investigates the development of publications related to podcasts in education. We conducted a bibliometric study on 3,660 documents published between 2005 and 2025. Documents were analysed using VOSviewer, employing the fractional counting method to maintain data weight proportionality. The findings indicated a growing scholarly interest in podcasts in education, with dominant contributions from social sciences and emerging relevance in agricultural domains. Podcasts demonstrated broad utility for scalable, inclusive education, especially in low-resource agricultural contexts. Although there are active author clusters, cross-institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations remain limited.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17509/edufortech.v10i2.85185
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