Moral Education (2010-2019): A Bibliometric Study (Part 2)

Overview & Synopsis

This research seeks to map several significant aspects in moral education bibliography. The mapping of moral education research that covers the country of contributors, collaborating authors, terms used in article titles and abstracts is needed to direct future research. The aim of this article is at classifying and analyzing moral education studies published in reputable international journals during 2010-2019 through a bibliometric study. This study uses the systematic and structured mind mapping method. There are four stages of the study: (1) searching for articles using the Publish or Perish application from the Scopus database, (2) filtering out articles to be included in bibliometric analysis, (3) checking and completing article metadata, and (4) conducting bibliometric analysis using the VOSviewer application. The results of the analysis were: (1) the countries of authors who publish moral education articles. Many countries have contributed in journal publications and the largest contributor is the United States. Analysis results showed that author collaboration did not occur often in moral education articles. (3) The most widely used terms in moral education article titles. The most used term is 'moral education'. (4) The most widely used abstract terms in moral education articles. The most used term in moral education articles is 'moral education'. This study concluded that the research on modal education has been spread in many countries, although the collaboration between institutions or the state is still lacking. Collaboration becomes an opportunity. [For Part 1 of this study, see ED606762.]