MAPPING OF RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY ON ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FROM 2011 TO 2020 – A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Assistive technology is one of the recent developments in improving academic, social and personal assistance for children with disabilities. This technology needs to be introduced into teacher education to train the teachers of the future. Ongoing research and development is required in this particular field of assistive technology. This study focuses the research productivity of articles in the field of Assistive Technology from 2011 to 2020 in SCOPUS database. The results are shown out of 948 publications from 448 sources, 576 publications in journals, and 2925 authors and contributors. More than twenty countries and twenty affiliations collaborated their in this research productivity in Assistive Technology with 3.45 collaborative indexes. Research on developmental disabilities is the best source and Lancioni GE is the best author in assistive technologies. Out of 948 articles PLOOG BO, 2013 is the number one article and got more citations.