The Concept of Literacy in Primary Education: A Bibliometric Study

Abstract

In this research, it is aimed to determine and evaluate the trends of the articles published in the Web of Science on the concept of literacy in primary education. The research data is based on the Web of Science database, with similar concepts as primary education, literacy, primary school, elementary education, 1st-2nd-3rd-4th-5th grade concepts. Descriptive and bibliometric analyzes were used together to obtain the data of the study. In the first stage, 4783 articles were reached, and in the second stage, 459 articles were reached. These data were processed with the Vosviewer program and descriptive and bibliometric content tables and network maps were obtained. According to the findings of the research, the most studies were conducted in the field of primary education and literacy in 2020, the majority of the studies were published in the education/education categories in the Web of Science database in the field of primary education and literacy, the most frequently published languages were English and then Spanish. findings have been reached. As a result, this research; it has created a general framework for many components that stand out in the field of literacy in primary education, including publication, author, publication language, journal, country, number of citations, collaborations, current research topics and future research trends.