Co-occurrence analysis of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools
Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies
Niloofar Parsafard
1
,
Ali Khalkhali
2
,
Zohreh Shakibaei
3
1 - Ph.D. candidate in Educational Management, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon Branch, Iran
2 - Department of Educational Management, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University Tonekabon, Iran
3 - Department of Educational Management, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University Tonekabon, Iran
Keywords: Scientometrics, school, Scientific Map, Co-occurrence,
Abstract :
Objective: The purpose of this research was to analysis the co-occurrence of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools.Methodology: This research was applied, descriptive/ analytical, and based on scientometrics technique. The statistical population were articles indexed in SID, comprehensive humanities portal, Magiran, and Eric databases, in 9 years (2012-2020), searching for the keyword "school". In one part of the study, the whole community and in another part, Bradford's law were used for sampling. Also, diagrams of co-matrices and scientific maps were prepared by Raver-Matrix and VOSviewer software, respectively.Results: In search of the keyword "school" in the databases, 4390 Persian articles (2012-2020) and 14313 English articles (2012-2020); Also 1712 Persian words, and 3563 English words were found. According to the findings, the highest growth rates of school-centered Persian researches were in 2019 (16.42%) and 2018 (14.33%), and in English in 2012 (20.09%). Most of these articles were in the fields of "psychology" and "education". Also, the highest co-occurrence rate of words with the school belonged to the "critical thinking-mind" in Persian and "students-schools" in English articles.Conclusion: Analysis of "school" developments at the national and international levels has shown that many researches have addressed this concept in recent years. The study of the publication rate of researches; and words co-occurrence with "school", suggests that "school" was implicitly within various fields; that’s necessary to focus on studied in a specialized field instead of scattered.
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