Global Citizenship Education: A Bibliometric Review

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the published articles on global citizenship education in journals covered by Scopus in the education category using bibliometric analysis. 407 articles were examined for this purpose. The data were analyzed using VOS viewer software. The current Publication Trends by the years, Citation Trends, Geographic Distribution of Publications, and Co-publication Patterns among countries associated with the research topic, were included in this context, as well as  Research Focus keyword Publication numbers have steadily increased since 2008. In terms of the number of citations in the year 2016 that the h-index and g-index had the highest values of '14' and '22',the countries with the highest number of citations are "The USA" and "UK", "Canada", "Australia" and "Spain". Keyword analysis shows that "global citizenship education," "global citizenship," and "citizenship" are trending. These results of the study can benefit researchers who are just starting to work on the study topic or those who have already been working in terms of publishing, creating cooperation, and mastering the intellectual foundations of the field.