A Bibliometric Analysis of Multicultural Education Research

Abstract

Bibliometrics, a research methodology that involves quantitative analysis to examine the characteristics of publications in a research area, is widely used by researchers. The lack of bibliometric research in multiculturalism and multicultural education prompted this study. This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of research on " multicultural education in the Web of Science database. The bibliographic data of 1,300 documents were acquired from the Web of Science and downloaded into a file. Then, the data were analyzed using the Wosviewer program. The results showed that the number of studies had steadily increased over time. The Journal for Multicultural Education proved to be the publication that published the most articles on multicultural education. In addition, more than half of the publications came from the United States of America, and the top ten universities contributing to multicultural education research are in the United States. In addition, Geneve Gay and Gloria Ladson Billings were identified as the most cited researchers in multiculturalism. Finally, the Journal of Teacher EducationTeaching and Teacher Education and Teaching and Teacher Education were the most frequently cited journals in multicultural education.