Giftedness and mathematics education: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The aim of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the articles written in the field of mathematics related to gifted students. Bibliometric analysis is the numerical examination of publications produced in a specific field and in a limited period and the relationships between these publications. The analysis included 104 research articles published in Turkish journals between 2010 and 2023 and accessed by searching Google Scholar, Dergipark and ULAKBIM databases. It is seen that the majority of the articles were written in 2020 (f: 18) and in Turkish (74%). A total of 52 articles by authors from 52 different institutions were found, and most of these articles belonged to MoNE teachers (f: 59, 27%). It was also found that the articles in this field were published in 69 different journals and the journals that published the most articles were "Turkish Journal of Gifted Intelligence" (5%) and "Journal of Gifted Education and Creavity" (5%). A total of 165 authors' publications on giftedness and mathematics were found and the authors who published the most were Avni Yıldız (f: 5) and Serdal Baltacı (f: 5). A total of 1244 words were used in the titles of the published articles and the words "gifted" (f: 57), "gifted" (f: 52), "students" (f: 41), "mathematics" (f: 37), "problem" (f: 31) were prominent. In the articles, 240 different keywords were used; "gifted students" (f: 18), "gifted students" (f: 16), "gifted students" (f: 12) and "problem solving" (f: 10) were the most preferred keywords. In 67% of the studies, fewer than 100 people were studied and the sample of students (f: 81, 78%) was preferred more. When the articles in the field of giftedness and mathematics were analyzed in terms of their purposes, "problem solving" (f: 24) and "STEM" (f: 13) came to the fore. In addition, 51 different scales were used in the analyzed articles and the most preferred scales were "Problem Solving Inventory (Heppner & Petersen, 1982)" (f: 4, 8%) and "Learning Styles Inventory (Kolb, 1984)" (f: 3, 6%). A total of 3364 different sources were cited in 104 articles; the most cited source in the field of giftedness was "Education of the Gifted and Talented (Davis G. A. & Rimm S.B., 1998)" (f: 16).