Trends in scientific research on Environmental Education: A scientometric review

Abstract

Given the need to understand the current approaches to Environmental Education (EE) in the world, we answer the following questions: (i) Have the studies directed to EE received attention from the scientific community? (ii) what are the trends in EE publications? In the past years, there has been an increase in the number of publications on EE. Brazil stood out in the number of publications, reflecting the concern of Brazilian researchers to promote sustainability and biodiversity maintenance. As for the approaches, the studies are broad, ranging from the influence of policies on environmental protection to the importance of reflection at a global level, proposing international agreements. However, regarding the EE application, given the multiple existing currents, it is worth emphasizing the importance of the teaching-learning process to take place critically so that there is no favoring of the contents promoted and supported by a hegemonic class.

Research in Environmental Education. A bibliometric analysis of the last two years

“…Along these lines, Pr osser -Bravo & Caro-Zúñiga 9 evaluated the WoS , Scopus Elsevier, SciELO, Dialnet, Redalyc and JSTOR databases, creating a final corpus of 151 studies. Hudha et al 15 , for their part, evaluated 55 articles, obtaining 317 citations and 63.4 citations/year. Finally, Usm an & Ho 16 , carried out a bibliometric evaluation of 495 relevant documents to identify several essential indicators of research on environmental issues , including the type of publication, the most outstanding journals, thematic categories, authors, institutions, and the countries, which contributed significantly to this topic.…”

“…For Lopera-López et al 13, p.429 "Bibliometric studies in EE allow reconstructing the history of research in the field in local and global contexts, knowing the prevailing pedagogical trends, epistemological, methodological obstacles, etc.". Therefore, different studies have addressed the problem of AD from a bibliometric approach 14,13,9,15,16,17,18 confirming the importance of this type of research. Due to the above, this research aims to characterize the world scientific production on AD in times of pandemic, using the Scopus and Web of Science (hereinafter WoS ), between the months of January 2020 to March 2022.…”