Learning Management System (LMS) Research During 1991-2021: How Technology Affects Education

Learning Management System (LMS) has been a widely-used learning media so a study is required to know the trend of its development. The present study aimed to analyze the types of documents, languages, contributing countries, top affiliates, sponsorship funding, top productive authors, research citations, subject areas, top source titles, trend mapping visualization, and top-cited 100 publications, and review some publications on LMS research during 1991-2021 using bibliometric analysis. The metadata were obtained by Scopus database and analyzed by VOSViewer within 2.689 documents. The bibliometric analysis results showed that LMS research had conference papers as the most widely published document type and English was the most commonly used language. The country with the most publications was the United States of America. National Natural Science Foundation of China became the top funding sponsor. The top affiliate was Bina Nusantara University. The most productive authors were Sabine Graf. Top cited author achieved by Fred D. Davis, and the top subject areas were Computer Science. Then, Lecture Notes In Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes In Bioinformatics became the title of the top source. Trends of LMS research in 1991-2021 were: 1) related to E-learning; 2) implementation of learning activities and student-teacher cases; 3) technology integration in learning; 4) distance learning; 5) technology education; 6) online learning environment; and 7) interactive learning environment.