Abstract:
This study focuses on an analysis of scientific production in the field of education within
universities in developing countries For this purpose academic articles were classified
into 17 predefined subareas Higher Education Educational Technology Educational
Policy Inclusive Education Pedagogy and Didactics Science Education and
Mathematics A keyword analysis algorithm was designed to identify and classify
publications in these subareas using key terms present in the titles abstracts and authors
keywords
This study used the multivariate HJBiplot technique to visualize the relationship between
Ecuadorian universities and the research subareas in which they concentrated their
scientific production The results indicated that both public and private universities focus
their research on key areas such as Higher Education Science and Mathematics
Education Educational Technology and Inclusive Education with significant differences
in the correlations between subareas
In particular private universities show a strong correlation between Educational
Technology and Health and Wellness Education whereas the correlation between
Inclusive Education and Science and Mathematics Education is weak Additionally low
representation was identified in emerging subareas such as Educational Policy and
Neuroeducation underscoring the need to foster more research in these areas
