Review of studies on routine-based interventions in early childhood in terms of bibliometric features

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the studies on routine-based interventions in terms of bibliometric characteristics. In this study, which was designed in accordance with the descriptive scanning model, the Web of Science (WoS) database was used as a data source and the studies were scanned by selecting ‘all fields’ with the keywords ‘routine-based intervention and early childhood’. While determining the inclusion criteria, no time restriction was made, it was paid attention that the research was conducted in the field of education, that it was published in English, that the sample included children in early childhood and/or their families, and 87 studies were included accordingly. Although bibliometric analysis tools have been diversified, VOSviewer 1.6.20 package program and open source R software were used in this study, and biblioshiny program, which provides an interface in the bibliometric package program, was also used. According to the results obtained, studies on routine-based interventions; the oldest was published in 2000 and the newest in 2023. When the categories of the studies were examined, it was seen that they were most frequently conducted in the fields of ‘special education’, ‘educational research’, ‘developmental psychology’. It was determined that the studies were most frequently published in the United States of America and the most citations were made to the studies in this country. In addition, keywords, co-author links regarding the co-operation of the authors and detailed information about the most cited studies as well as suggestions for future research were presented to the relevant researchers.

Keywords: Early childhood, routine-based intervention, bibliometric analysis, VOSviewer