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Teacher Educators: A Bibliometric Mapping Of An Emerging Research Area, Tugba Hangul, Mehmet Fatih Ozmantar, Gulay Agac

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

There has been increasing research attention on teacher educators in recent years; however, the dynamics of this research area have not been examined through bibliometric analysis of the relevant studies. This study aimed to perform a systematic mapping of the trends in research studies on teacher educators through the bibliometric data obtained from the Web of Science database. The bibliometric analysis led to four substantial findings: (1) research on teacher educators is an emerging field of educational studies that have experienced a progressive increase since the 2000s; (2) scientific publications in this field are produced by a small group of …