An Academic Trend in STEM Education from Bibliometric and Co-Citation Method

Abstract

Abstract-The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education research still grows continuously in this decade; this study utilized the bibliometric and co-citation method to depict literature characteristics of STEM education, including distribution of journals, publication countries, subject area, most cited references and so on. The analytical data is from querying the database of Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of ISI Web of knowledge. Data, collected in the database, could be easily analyzed to figure out the popularity of publications and impact of articles through citation indexes. This study provided the distribution of core, relevant, and marginal journal, and describe the academic trend in STEM education.

Women in STEM in Higher Education: A Citation Analysis of the Current Literature

“…Only three of the top ten journals covering topics involving women in STEM were published within traditional science, technology, engineering, and math journals as defined by Ulrichs Global Serials Directory Subject Classifications. This supports the findings of Yu, Chang, and Yu (2016) who found 13% of journal articles on STEM education were published within only four journal titles. However, a majority of these studies expand the theoretical knowledge base of disciplines such as psychology, gender and sexuality studies, education, and sociology.…”

A Bibliometric Review of Research on STEM Education in ASEAN: Science Mapping the Literature in Scopus Database, 2000 to 2019

“…The basic bibliometric analysis uses descriptive statistics to document "topographical" trends within a body of knowledge (Hallinger & Kovačević, 2019) . In recent years there have been researches on scientific bibliometric analysis of STEM education in the world via the Web of Science database (Aksoy, 2018;Batdi et al, 2019;Özkaya, 2019;Yu et al, 2016). These researches have drawn a complete picture of the formation and development of STEM education's researches and applications.…”

“…There has been a rapid increase in the number of STEM education researches during the previous decade; Academic interest in STEM in education rocketed after 2008 (93.3% of the publications 2 / 11 related to STEM education were formed by the works published between 2008-2017). It can be seen that the countries that contributed most to STEM education during 1992-2013 were developed countries: The United States, England, The Netherlands, Australia (Özkaya, 2019;Yu et al, 2016). Of these, the US is the nation that realized the highest number of collaborations with other countries, while England is guiding the researches that will be made in the STEM education subject area (Özkaya, 2019).…”

“…This can be explained partly by the increasing number and funding of STEM education projects in the US (a total of 127 projects funded by the US Department of Education's Institute of Educational Sciences (IES) from 2003 to 2019) (Li et al, 2020). STEM educational publications mainly focus on Q1 journals in the SCImago database, such as the International Journal of Science Education, the Journal of Science Education and Technology, the Journal of Engineering Education, and teachers' college records with the STEM keywords: science education, STEM education, and higher education (Özkaya, 2019;Yu et al, 2016).…”

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