Taking a Snapshot: Four Bibliometric Indicators to Track Engineering Education Research

In recent years, as engineering education research (EER) has evolved as an area of study, questions of its disciplinary status, global reach and diffusion of educational innovation have been raised. Bibliometric analysis, mainly employing author affiliation data and citation analysis, has been shown to be effective in gathering relevant data on these issues. In this paper, the authors broaden the scope of previous analyses by introducing reference discipline as an indicator.