Research trends and hotspots of differentiated instruction over the past two decades (2000-2020): a bibliometric analysis

Educational Studies

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2024, Pages 186-202

  Sun, Yi ^a   Xiao, Longhai ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

bibliometric analysis; citespace; Differentiated instruction (di); differentiation; mapping knowledge domain (mkd)

Indexed keywords

EID: 85107493807     PISSN: 03055698     EISSN: 14653400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03055698.2021.1937945     Document Type: Review

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