Co-occurrence analysis of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools

The purpose of this research was to analysis the co-occurrence of words and visualizing a scientific map of researches about schools.

 This research was applied, descriptive/ analytical, and based on scientometrics technique. The statistical population were articles indexed in SID, comprehensive humanities portal, Magiran, and Eric databases, in 9 years (2012-2020), searching for the keyword "school". In one part of the study, the whole community and in another part, Bradford's law were used for sampling. Also, diagrams of co-matrices and scientific maps were prepared by Raver-Matrix and VOSviewer software, respectively.

 In search of the keyword "school" in the databases, 4390 Persian articles (2012-2020) and 14313 English articles (2012-2020); Also 1712 Persian words, and 3563 English words were found. According to the findings, the highest growth rates of school-centered Persian researches were in 2019 (16.42%) and 2018 (14.33%), and in English in 2012 (20.09%). Most of these articles were in the fields of "psychology" and "education". Also, the highest co-occurrence rate of words with the school belonged to the "critical thinking-mind" in Persian and "students-schools" in English articles.

Analysis of "school" developments at the national and international levels has shown that many researches have addressed this concept in recent years. The study of the publication rate of researches; and words co-occurrence with "school", suggests that "school" was implicitly within various fields; that’s necessary to focus on studied in a specialized field instead of scattered.