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Publications on prior knowledge and learning increased strongly from 1980 to 2021, reaching about 600 new publications per year

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q3 i? Annual publication counts rose strongly over four decades, with the increase more pronounced in psychological (PsycInfo) than educational (ERIC) literature, and yearly counts correlating r = .87 to .99 with overall database growth. → Bittermann 2023

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Bittermann 2023

Bittermann, A., McNamara, D., Simonsmeier, B. A., & Schneider, M. (2023). The Landscape of Research on Prior Knowledge and Learning: a Bibliometric Analysis. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09775-9

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Analysis of publication counts by year and database (Figure 1) across the 13,507-study corpus; temporal trends follow overall database publication increase, with correlations between r = .87 (ERIC) and r = .99 (PsycInfo).

"The number of publications per year on prior knowledge and learning increased strongly from 1980 to 2021. The increase was more pronounced in the psychological literature (i.e., in PsycInfo) than in the educational literature (i.e., ERIC). Currently, about 600 new publications on prior knowledge are published every year"

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title Publications on prior knowledge and learning increased strongly from 1980 to 2021, reaching about 600 new publications per year
description Publications on prior knowledge and learning increased strongly from 1980 to 2021, reaching about 600 new publications per year
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2023
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-22
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