Bibliotherapy in the Pandemic Time: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This research aims to obtaining the general parametric insights on the productivity and influence of the studies on that fields as the attempt to deal with the impact of the spread of the corona virus particularly to students and their language learning. The inclusion of the language learning is connected with the notion of language as the main ingredient of text(s) selected for bibliotherapy. By relying upon Publish or Perish (PoP) metrics, the analysed data were taken from the articles published within the range from 2020-2022 which are thought to be the period of the emergence and highly spread of Corona Virus. To guide the exact and comprehensive search, seven keywords such as covid, pandemic, students, text, literature, language learning and Indonesia are combined with bibliotherapy as the main topic. The results indicated that globally 148 articles mark the productivity of the research on the bibliotherapy, yet the high impact gain by the combination of bibliotherapy with ‘student, pandemic, and literature’ as shown by the metrics of citation and index. Unfortunately, this global tendency is far different from the Indonesian context which reveals no inquiry yet conducted on the bibliotherapy issue despite the big number of victims and affected covid-19 in this country.