Divergent research orientations of affective and emotion concepts in artificial intelligence education through a bibliometric analysis
Through a bibliometric analysis of 401 documents from 2020 to 2025, this study reveals that while AI-driven affective and emotion research has matured into a coherent ecosystem with a significant growth inflection in 2023, the two concepts exhibit divergent orientations—where "affective" research focuses on educational practice and "emotion" research on technological development—necessitating a proposed Dual Knowledge Production Model to guide cross-disciplinary collaboration.