Abstract
Background/purpose The current study aims to analyze the thematic structures and trends of scientific publications that examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and while presenting a roadmap for future research on this topic. Materials/methods-The data were obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) bibliographic database by identifying the publications that examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and then were analyzed using bibliometric methodology and content analysis. VOSviewer, GraphPad softwares, and visualization maps were used to analyze the data and to present the findings. Results-The results of the study show that publications examining the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and focused on online education and teacher education, while the countries that contributed the most to publications on this issue were USA, United Kingdom, Canada, and Spain. It was determined that most publications preferred the theoretical model and the majority of the research data were obtained through scale/interview forms. Furthermore, the findings of this study revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the editorial/refereeing processes of the articles submitted to academic journals were carried out very quickly and the articles were published unusually quickly. Conclusion-This study indicated that the majority of scientific studies on COVID-19 are focused on the field of health, and that there is limited edition research on COVID-19-related education. To the best of the authors knowledge, the current study is the first research article in the international literature to examine the thematic structures and trends of scientific publications on the relationship between solely and COVID-19 through bibliometric and content analysis;and contributes to the knowledge base on COVID-19-related by mapping the existing knowledge. © 2021 Universitepark. All rights reserved.
Highlights
The novel coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) was detected in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, in December 2019, and was subsequently declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020
Materials/methods – The data were obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) bibliographic database by identifying the publications that examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and education, were analyzed using bibliometric methodology and content analysis
The current study examined publications from journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database published between January 1 and December 31, 2020; those that only examined the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and education
Summary
The novel coronavirus disease (2019-nCoV) was detected in Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province, in December 2019, and was subsequently declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. COVID-19 has caused serious health problems and significant loss of human life, modern advances in technology has provided significant advantage in the prevention and treatment of the disease when compared to other large scale global pandemics in history (Moreno et al, 2020). Even though modern technological possibilities have facilitated and enabled a multifaceted fight against COVID-19 compared to similar crises of the past, the current pandemic has still caused unexpected and very serious difficulties to the lives of millions worldwide (Karakose & Malkoc, 2021b; Qiu et al, 2020; Torales et al, 2020)
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