Digital Citizenship and Education: State of the Art and Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to show a state of the art of "digital citizenship". Furthermore, the aim is to promote the varied relationships between digital citizenship and education, from educational theory and policy to educational practice and research. Thus, we have extracted the documents from databases in Web of Science (the search results of "digital citizen*" were 411) and they were examined with the bibliographic analysis tool VOSviewer. The description of the documents claims to a dizzying rate in the last three years (half of the total) and to the importance of education as a category of scientific discipline (one third of the total). The bibliometric analysis provided co-occurrences by keywords and co-authorships by nationalities. The conclusions are the rise of the keywords "social media", "education" and "surveillance"; the increase of documents focused on youth and their digital engagement; and the relevance of American researchers followed by Spanish researchers.