Determining the Trends in Global Citizenship Publications in Education: A Bibliometric Analysis

Although numerous educational studies have been conducted on global citizenship, a significant gap in the literature needs to improve a comprehensive understanding of global citizenship research in education. Therefore, this study aims to employ a bibliometric method to analyze the academic production of global citizenship in education. In line with this purpose, the data from 2000 to 2022 were obtained from the Web of Science database, and an analysis encompassing annual scientific production, cited documents, sources, authors, affiliations, countries, keywords, research trends, and conceptual structure was conducted. Furthermore, predictions were made regarding the future of global citizenship research. Analysis was performed by using the Biblioshiny interface via RStudio. It is concluded that global citizenship research has shown a strong upward trend since 2008. Notably, the United States and the United Kingdom have emerged as central contributors in the field of global citizenship. Global citizenship research is evolving towards the global citizenship education dimension. In particular, there is a focus on internalization of the curriculum to develop global sensitivity. In future research, sub-themes of global citizenship can be tested using different artificial intelligence tools.