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Researches of “Teaching and Learning on ESD” Over the Last Two Decades: Bibliometric Analysis
Published date: Jun 20 2025
Journal Title: KnE Social Sciences
Issue title: The International Conference on Teaching, Learning and Technology 2024 (ICTLT 2024)
Pages: 193 - 202
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This study aims to provide an overview of ‘teaching and learning on ESD’ research in terms of scientific production, preferred publication venues, most involved researchers and countries (including collaborations). Data collection was done by extracting articles from Scopus online database system. The output was exported in BibTex format and was converted to a data frame through a function in bibliometrix. The main findings point to a continuous increase in research output in the field ‘teaching and learning on ESD’ over the last two decades. Furthermore, they indicate a shift regarding the research foci. While formerly mainly papers on the ESD were published, recently, an increase in the relevancy of empirical studies on the ‘teaching and learning on ESD’ can be observed. However, this study only focused on articles published in scientific journals so that future studies can also consider other sources books or conference proceedings.
Keywords: teaching and learning, ESD, bibliometric analysis
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