Abstract
This study aims to conduct a bibliometric analysis of academic studies in the last two decades on inquiry-based teaching (IBT) in the Web of Science (WoS) database. For this purpose, 264 ASDÖ studies indexed in the WoS database were examined in terms of their bibliometric properties and the network map was created using the VOSviewer program. ASDÖ studies were analyzed according to documents, sources, authors, institutions and countries in terms of citation, bibliographic matching, co-citation, co-authorship and coexistence structures. The results showed that "inquiry-based learn-ing", "motivation" and "science education" were the most used keywords. It has shown that the most cited study on ASDÖ is "Spronken-Smith and Walker (2010)", the most active journal is "Interna-tional Journal of Science Education", and the journal with the highest number of citations is "Studies in Higher Education". It was also seen that the studies were mostly published in the UK and USA. It has also been revealed that the studies have intensified in Turkey, Finland and Germany after 2013. It is thought that this study will serve as a guide for new researchers who will work on ASDÖ to identify trends in the field and to compare existing research on the subject.
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