Metacognition in the field of international education: Bibliometric Analysis Based on Citespace and VOSviewer

With the development of cognitive factors in the fields of pedagogy and psychology, Metacognition has received much attention as the "cognition of cognition", This paper examines the overall development context, research hotspots and future trends of the metacognitive field from 2005 to 2023, With the help of CiteSpace and VOSviewer visual analysis software, 2143 documents from CNKI (N=348) and Web of Science (N=1795) were analyzed, The results suggest that international research on metacognition will continue to flourish in the coming years, But domestic research needs to grow. Based on the sudden analysis results of keywords, different subject integration methods, metacognitive skills and metacognitive education may become future research hotspots.