Bibliometric analysis of environmental literacy: A systematic literature review using VOSviewer

This study aims to determine scientific research trends on environmental literacy through bibliometric studies in Scopus indexed journals or proceedings from 2010-2020. The Publish or Perish application with environmental education and environmental literacy keywords was collected using data collection. To analyze the development of the number of publications, author productivity, and the most cited articles using Microsoft Excel application, while to analyze the relationship between research trend topics and research topics most frequently researched using VOSviewer application. The study results reveal that scientific publications on environmental literacy are increasing every year on average. The highest publication occurred in 2019, with 314 publications (10.4%). The 4 most productive researchers are Liu, X, who produced 6 journal articles. Zhang, X; Wang, Y; and Goldman, D, who produced 5 journal articles. Journal of Cleaner Production is the journal that publishes the most documents on environmental literacy, with 104 publications. The latest topics based on article data in this research include environmental health literacy, environmental awareness, environmental behavior, and environmental sustainability, which were published in 2017-2020. The most frequently researched topic is education, followed by environment, literacy, and environmental literacy.