BIBLIOMETRIC RESEARCH ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL AREA.

Abstract

The present article proposes an analysis of how the European Education Area is approached within existing articles in the Web of Science database. Considering that the education system at the European level and at Romania’s national level is continuously reformed, if teachers or researchers want to carry out research or implement projects regarding the state of the educational system, in addition to the official information that can be found, they also need specific information contained in the scientific research within the articles, which contain, in their body, the presentation of the phenomena, the description of the literature specific to the discussed issue, a research methodology and tool, specific results, and conclusions filtered through the experience and training of the authors of the articles. The research methodology consisted of the development of a bibliometric analysis in the field of European education, being carried out based on articles from the Web of Science platform. The query displayed 404 scientific articles containing "European educational space" in the document's title, abstract, or keywords. The results show that most articles address the field of higher education, and most authors are affiliated with higher education structures and even European consortia made by universities at the European level. Information on the chosen topic can also be gathered from within the consortia of the universities where the authors of the article are affiliated. The analysis of the clusters of the 404 analyzed articles with the VosViewer program showed that the articles can be grouped according to five of the six strategies adopted by the European Council for the creation of the European Education Area.

Keywords

• : european education area
• bibliometric research
• quantitative research
• vosviewer
• web of science