The goal of this study is to identify major research trends and focus in the field of educational research. To this end, 22,000 titles consisting of PhD dissertations, journal papers and conference proceedings were retrieved from the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center - https://eric-ed-gov.bibliotheek.ehb.be/?) database in the period from 2009 to 2018. A topic modeling tool from Google code was downloaded and used for topic analysis, the researcher performed topic modeling for a ten year span and for each year individually using LDA. A total of 1000 keywords extracted from these titles i.e. a list of 10 topics comprising of ten words each for each year was generated, which I then labeled with descriptive titles. Both word frequencies and topic modeling were analyzed at the article title level these results were visualized using tableau so that they could be easily understood. A comparison of the extracted topics by LDA with subject headings in education shows that there several distinct sub research domains strongly tied with the field. They include study, student and learning in the domain of "Student learning". Professional, education, teacher in the domain of "Teacher education". Special, education and support in the domain of special education. Reading and language in the domain of "reading comprehension and instruction". Secondly, the results show that there is a markedly strong rise in prominence of topics about special education and an overall dominance of topics on student learning.