Academic procrastination among higher education adolescents college students: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis and content analyses from 1960 to 2024

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of research on academic procrastination among adolescent college students. This study analyzes the trends of publications, authors and journals that have been instrumental over the years and the prevailing research themes, number of citations, author keywords and most productive countries, using data retrieved via the Scopus database and bibliometric techniques using Bibliomagik and VOSviewer software for 364 articles published between 1960 and 2024. This study shows that procrastination has increased rapidly over the past 10 years, particularly up to 2023. The United States is the most prolific producer in terms of impactful authors, organizations and alliances, according to the report. Academic achievement, control, time management, anxiety and motivation were the strongest clusters of the research identified from co-occurrence analysis. Such findings provide clues to the evolution of academic procrastination research towards a psychological and contextual perspective.