BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE ARTICLES IN THE FIELD OF ARGUMENTATIONIN SCIENCE FROM 1976 TO 2020

Abstract

The purpose of the current study is to analyse bibliometric features of the articles onargumentation available in the WoS (Web of Science) database. A total number of 2176 articleson argumentation were determined on the date of 26 March 2020. The number of articles andcitations across the years, prominent institutions and countries publishing the articles,collaborations between the countries, having the highest co-citations in the references of thearticles were determined through the use of descriptive and bibliometric analyses. Also, the mostfrequent co-occurrences of the keywords in the articles on argumentation were revealed. As aresult of the research, the country that comes to the fore in terms of the number of articles inthe field of argumentation is the USA (America), while the UK (England) is a country with highinfluences in this field in terms of highest link strength and collaborations. Other findings of thestudy revealed that research in the field of argumentation has been carried out in manydisciplines such as science and science education and mathematics education, mathematics andlogic, applications of the artificial intelligence in computer science and linguistics. However, it can be said that research in the field of argumentation made the most progress in science education.In addition, the most cited articles in co-citations belong to Driver, Newton and Osborne (2000)and Osborne, Erduran and Simon (2004) and Zohar and Nemet (2002). Also, Toulmin’s (1958)book of the “Uses of Argument” receives remarkable citations. Moreover, the co-occurrences ofthe keywords found to be used the most frequently in the articles are argumentation, abstractargumentation, discourse analysis, argumentation theory, critical thinking, computationalcomplexity and argumentation semantic.