A bibliometric analysis of chemistry education research (CER) published in international journals (2001-2020): Status of CER in Turkey

As

an established field of practice, chemistry education research (CER) could be

considered as the teaching and learning of chemistry. The wider scope of CER covers

areas of enquiry such matters as the chemistry curriculum; how learning of

chemistry is assessed; the discipline specific aspects of how teachers are

prepared for and developed in their work; the design of teaching resources that

represent chemical knowledge in ways informed by knowledge of human learning

processes or to support particular pedagogies (Taber, 2019, p.1). Chemistry

education plays important role in enhancing the quality of teaching and

research as well as ensuring that students are equipped with good knowledge and

skills industry and society to meet human needs for food, health care products

and other materials aimed at improving the quality of life (Nnamdi, 2014). Therefore,

identifying the status and changes in trends in CER is important. It is

necessary to reveal the trends in the literature in order to develop solutions

to meet these needs in chemistry education. With the determination of trends,

current developments in chemistry education will be revealed and it will

contribute to the planning of future research. The aim of this study is to

determine the distribution of the number of citations and documents on the

basis of country, author, organization and keywords of the publications in the

"Web of Science (WoS)" in the last 20 years in international journals

on chemistry education and identify how Turkey contributed to the CER

literature. <o:p></o:p>

This

is a document analysis study. The “articles” and “review articles” related to

chemistry education in WoS were subjected to a bibliometric analysis. The data are

obtained from 3285 articles and reviews made published between 2001 and 2020. The

analysis of the data is done with Bibliometric analysis by using the VOSviewer

1.6.17 software. <o:p></o:p>

The

results showed major trends such as an increase in the number of papers

published. While, at the beginning (2001-2005) America, England, the

Netherlands and Israel were at the forefront, later years (2006-2020) America,

Turkey and Germany are become the main publishers in CER internationally.

Further analysis and results would be presented according to the distribution

of the citations and documents on the basis of country, organization and

keywords. <o:p></o:p>

References:

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Nnamdi, E. (2014). The role of

chemistry education in national development. The International Journal of Engineering And Science (IJES), 3(3), 12-17. https://www.theijes.com/papers/v3-i3/Version-3/C0333012017.pdf<o:p></o:p>

Taber, K.S. (2019). Progressing

chemistry education research as a disciplinary field. Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research (DISER),

1, Article number: 5, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43031-019-0011-z <o:p></o:p>