Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Academic Procrastination

Xue Tao,Hamsa Hameed Ahmed,Hafiz Hanif,Nader Ale Ebrahim

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.722332

Abstract

Numerous students suffer from academic procrastination; it is a common problem and phenomenon in academic settings. Many previous researchers have analyzed its relationships with other factors, such as self-regulation and academic success. This paper aims to provide a full outline of academic procrastination and explore the current hot spots and trends. Bibliometrix and VOSviewer were used to conduct quantitative analysis. The data was collected from the Web of Science core collection database, which contains 1,240 articles from the years 1938 to 2021. The analysis shows that the publication of articles on academic procrastination has been rapidly increasing since 1993. In terms of the most influential countries and institutions, the United states took a prominent lead among all countries, and the most productive institutions in this area were the University of Washington and University of California, Los Angeles. By analyzing the authors, we see that most authors like working with a few collaborators, leading to main groups of authors, such as Murat Balkis and June J. Pilcher. The most frequently cited author was Esther D. Rothblum. Based on the co-citation journals network, Personality and Individual Differences was the prolific and influential journal referring to the number of citations and articles it received. The VOSviewer tool identified the hot spots of academic procrastination, which were mainly distributed as follows: (a) procrastination, (b) academic procrastination, (c) self-regulation, (d) academic performance, and (e) motivation. Therefore, this paper is helpful for scholars and practitioners to know the trend of academic procrastination research comprehensively.

Highlights

Academic procrastination is considered problematic to academic success and a self-regulated failure among university students (Zhang et al, 2018; Hailikari et al, 2021)
The results indicate that the Web of Science (WoS) database was more successful in covering the title search compared with SCOPUS
In terms of the analysis of cooperation between countries and institutions, the United States took a prominent lead among all countries, and Canada, Turkey, England, and China have all accomplished a fruitful job and achieved great contributions

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Introduction

Academic procrastination is considered problematic to academic success and a self-regulated failure among university students (Zhang et al, 2018; Hailikari et al, 2021). There are various definitions of academic procrastination as it occurs in different fields It means putting off tasks or failing to finish them (Aznar-Diaz et al, 2020) or delaying academic studies purposefully (Schraw et al, 2007; Chen, 2019). It can be described as a failure of self-regulation, incapable of supervising, regulating, and playing with the preferred criteria for controlling impulses, emotions, task performance, and thoughts (Wolters, 2003; Balkis and Duru, 2016; Zhang et al, 2018)

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