Bibliometric Study Concerning Multicultural Competence And Intercultural Competence Of Preservice Teacher At Reputable International Journals

Abstract

This research aims to know research articles distribution on multicultural competence and Intercultural competence of preservice teacher. Besides, it is to see the distribution collaboration map among researchers, multicultural competence research trends in education, and to know topics can be investigated in further research. This research is a literature study using the bibliometric analysis method in analyzing the citation. The sample of articles processed is multicultural competence research articles in education that are included in the Scimago version of the Q4-Q1 journal criteria since 2019-2023 that are processed using Publish Or Perish (PoP) software; 26 journals. The research topic experienced an increasing trend despite the fluctuating increase. Based on the distribution mapping of the author's keywords through the co-author, it can be concluded that collaboration among researchers is still very minimal. There were only two researchers with 1 cluster. At the same time, the co-occurrence of author keywords was obtained by 38 keywords divided into 7 clusters. The most appearing were comparative analysis, higher education, multiculturalism, nationality, and teaching attitude. The most dominant research trend was in cluster 1, which consisted of eight keywords. Those keywords those were counselor training, counselor in training, longitudinal, msjcc, multicultural competence, pedagogy, self-perceptions, social justice advocacy.