A Bibliometric Analysis of Creative Drama Studies in Education
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine the studies on creative drama in education with bibliometric analysis method. The studies constituting the data of the study were obtained from Dimensions, WoS, Scopus and PubMed databases. For this purpose, an extended search was made with the words "creative drama" and "education" and 329 studies were combined in the R program. The combined data were filtered with the Biblioshiny package to consist only of articles in English and Turkish languages and the final number of studies to be analyzed was determined as 87. According to the findings obtained in the research; the year in which the most articles were produced between 1983 and 2024 was determined as 2022. The most cited authors were Hendrix, Eick and Shannon, while the most cited journal was Education and Science. The most used keywords in the studies were education, human, child and drama, and it was concluded that the trend in the studies was in the direction of education, human and women-themed studies. It is thought that this study will provide a general perspective to individuals and researchers interested in the field of creative drama in education.
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