Physical Education Teacher Education: A Bibliometric Analysis by Vosviewer

Abstract

This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of physical education teacher education-themed articles in the category of sports sciences and educational research in the Web of Science (WOS) database. VOSviewer scientific mapping tool in the WOS database was used as a data collection tool. The keyword 'physical education teacher education' was used as a search criterion in WOS and publications published between 1991-2023 were considered. A total of 697 studies in the category of educational research and sports sciences that met the search criteria were reached. The studies were analysed with VOSviewer (1.6.19) bibliometric analysis programme. According to the results, it was concluded that the most commonly used keywords were physical education and physical education teacher education, the most published and cited journal was Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, the most published and cited author was K. Andrew Richards, the most publish (n:413) and cite (n:4783) was belong to the United States of America.