MAPPING TRENDS IN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Abstract

Multicultural education is essential to study in a pluralistic and prone to conflict state, so that later it can find the solutions to problems. This study aims to map trends in multicultural education publications over the past decade. Data search through data based scopus with the keyword "multicultural education", during 2014-2023. The results showed that searching for articles using keywords resulted in 1,004 articles from journals and conference papers. The results showed that the development of multicultural education publications experienced the highest increase in 2020. The highest author productivity is Aydin, H. The author with the most citations is Warren C.A. The most productive core journal is Multicultural Education Review. The subject of the largest area is the field of social sciences. The United States became the most productive country for research in the field of multicultural education. Mapping multicultural education publications analyzed by vosviewer application showed 10  clusters with 100 theme items. Seldom published themesare a reference as themes that will trend in the following years.