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title: "Artificial intelligence in education research"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “artificial intelligence in education” appeared in 320 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (195), AI (63) and management (37)."
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share_text: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “artificial intelligence in education” appeared in 320 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (195), AI (63) and management (37). (as of 2026-11-03)"
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# Papers on “artificial intelligence in education”

Research on “artificial intelligence in education” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “artificial intelligence in education” appeared in 320 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in higher education and research (195), AI (63) and management (37).
- 84 of them were published in 2025, against 1 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Education University of Hong Kong (11), Monash University (7) and Technical University of Munich (7).
- The journals publishing most of them were Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence (95), AI & Society (43) and The International Journal of Management Education (22).
- The most-cited of them is “Systematic review of research on artificial intelligence applications in higher education – where are the educators?” (International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 2019), with 7,197 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 24 | 23 | 37 | 42 | 51 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 19 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 11 | 13 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| All categories | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 13 | 28 | 37 | 56 | 84 | 90 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 95 |
| 2 | [AI & Society](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ai-society.md) | 43 |
| 3 | [The International Journal of Management Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-international-journal-of-management-education.md) | 22 |
| 4 | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [The Internet and Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-internet-and-higher-education.md) | 7 |
| 6 | [Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/higher-education.md) | 5 |
| 7 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 5 |
| 8 | [Innovative Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/innovative-higher-education.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [International Journal of Educational Development](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-development.md) | 4 |
| 10 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 4 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Education University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/education-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 11 |
| 2 | [Monash University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 7 |
| 3 | [Technical University of Munich](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/technical-university-of-munich.md) | 7 |
| 4 | [University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-hong-kong.md) | 6 |
| 5 | [Beijing Normal University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beijing-normal-university.md) | 5 |
| 6 | [Chinese University of Hong Kong](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-university-of-hong-kong.md) | 5 |
| 7 | Stockholm University | 5 |
| 8 | [University of Cambridge](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-cambridge.md) | 5 |
| 9 | [University of Florida](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-florida.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [Purdue University West Lafayette](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/purdue-university-west-lafayette.md) | 4 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 52 |
| 2 | China | 39 |
| 3 | Hong Kong | 24 |
| 4 | Australia | 23 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 23 |
| 6 | India | 21 |
| 7 | Germany | 18 |
| 8 | Spain | 11 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 10 |
| 10 | Turkey | 9 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [generative AI](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/generative-ai.md) | 41 |
| 2 | [ChatGPT](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chatgpt.md) | 38 |
| 3 | [AI ethics](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/ai-ethics.md) | 32 |
| 4 | [higher education](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/higher-education.md) | 30 |
| 5 | AI literacy | 29 |
| 6 | personalized learning | 24 |
| 7 | [teacher professional development](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/teacher-professional-development.md) | 24 |
| 8 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 19 |
| 9 | [university students](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/university-students.md) | 19 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,197 | 85.4 | [Systematic review of research on artificial intelligence applications in higher education – where are the educators?](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-019-0171-0) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2019-10-27 | Olaf Zawacki‐Richter, Victoria I. Marín, Melissa Bond et al. |
| 2 | 4,592 | 104.9 | [Opinion Paper: “So what if ChatGPT wrote it?” Multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities, challenges and implications of generative conversational AI for research, practice and policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2023.102642) | [International Journal of Information Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-information-management.md) | 2023-03-11 | Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi, Nir Kshetri, Laurie Hughes et al. |
| 3 | 2,012 | 47.5 | [Artificial intelligence in higher education: the state of the field](https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-023-00392-8) | [International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-journal-of-educational-technology-in-higher-education.md) | 2023-04-23 | Helen Crompton, Diane Burke |
| 4 | 1,433 | 17.5 | [Vision, challenges, roles and research issues of Artificial Intelligence in Education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2020.100001) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2020-01-01 | Gwo‐Jen Hwang, Haoran Xie, Benjamin Wan-Sang Wah et al. |
| 5 | 1,183 | 25.4 | [Systematic literature review on opportunities, challenges, and future research recommendations of artificial intelligence in education](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2022.100118) | [Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-and-education-artificial-intelligence.md) | 2022-12-19 | Thomas K.F. Chiu, Qi Xia, Xinyan Zhou et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “artificial intelligence in education”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/artificial-intelligence-in-education

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