Dr Wong Lung Hsiang amongst the top cited researchers in seamless learning field worldwide

Based on a bibliometric analysis study that aims to determine how studies on seamless learning have progressed since 1996, Dr Wong Lung Hsiang, Senior Education Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP), was found to be among the top-three most cited authors, and singly authored or co-authored four out of the top-ten most cited publications. In addition, the National Institute of Education (NIE) was identified as the one of the top institutions when institutions of co-authors were analysed for inter-institutional cooperation.

The study was reported in the academic paper titled “Bibliometric analysis of the research on seamless learning”, authored by Turkish scholar Dr Tarik Talan, and was published in the International Journal of Technology in Education in May 2021. The study covered 389 relevant publications published between 1996 to 2020 indexed by the Scopus database.

According to the co-citation analysis of the examined publications, Dr Wong was found to be among the three most cited scholars, along with Prof Mike Sharples (Open University, United Kingdom) and Prof Hiroaki Ogata (Kyoto University, Japan). Among the ten most-cited publications on seamless learning as identified by the study, Dr Wong’s four publications were ranked 1st, 2nd, 6th and 10th, respectively.

In particular, the top publication in the list is the 2011 journal paper titled “What seams do we remove in mobile-assisted seamless learning? A critical review of the literature”, which Dr Wong co-authored with Prof Looi Chee Kit from the Learning Sciences & Assessment Academic Group (LSA AG) at NIE, and was published in the Journal of Computers in Education. The paper garnered 310 citations among the examined publications (i.e., the citation count did not cover citing publications which were not indexed by Scopus). The more comprehensive citation count of the paper as determined by Google Scholar was 678 (as of 6 July 2022).