Exploring the emerging COVID-19 research trends and current status in the field of education: a bibliometric analysis and knowledge mapping

Background/purpose – The current study aims to analyze the thematic and trends of scientific publications that examine the relationship the COVID-19 pandemic and education, while presenting a for future research on this topic. /methods – The data were obtained from the Web of Science Collection (WoSCC) bibliographic database by identifying the that examine the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic education, then were analyzed using bibliometric methodology and analysis. VOSviewer, GraphPad softwares, and visualization maps used to analyze the data and to present the findings. – The results of the study show that publications examining the between the COVID-19 pandemic and education focused on “online education” and “teacher education,” while the countries that the most to publications on this issue were USA, United , Canada, and Spain. It was determined that most publications the “theoretical model” and the majority of the research data obtained through “scale/interview forms.” Furthermore, the findings this study revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic period, the /refereeing processes of the articles submitted to academic journals carried out very quickly and the articles were published unusually . – This study indicated that the majority of scientific studies on -19 are focused on the field of health, and that there is limited edition on COVID-19-related education. To the best of the authors’ , the current study is the first research article in the international to examine the thematic structures and trends of scientific on the relationship between solely education and COVID-19 bibliometric and content analysis; and contributes to the knowledge on COVID-19-related education by mapping the existing knowledge.