Educational Leadership in Vocational Education: A 10-Year Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Introduction: Educational leadership in vocational education is a complex and important topic. Nevertheless, there is still a deficiency in academic discourse regarding the bibliometric analysis of this body of knowledge.

Objectives: This study aims to give a summary of the development of this topic by locating publications indexed in the Scopus database between 2014 and 2024.

Methods: Educational leadership in vocational education-related research has garnered significant scholarly attention for more than fifty years, yielding a large corpus of literature on the domain. Using keywords like "vocational education" and "educational leadership," the search produced a total of 15315 articles at first. After applying exclusion and inclusion criteria, 2089 studies were kept for final analysis. The research includes the most prolific researchers, top 10 journals, yearly article frequency, composition of articles, top 10 contributing countries, the most influential articles, and the most frequently used keywords.

Results: The study's main contribution is to highlight the bibliometric insights gained through in-depth analysis regarding educational leadership in vocational education. Additionally, universities, trends, and nations are displayed and analyzed.

Conclusions: The conclusions provide useful insights for academics into the precise growth of educational leadership in vocational education through organizing the field's body of existing literature.