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This study aimed to unearth the status of the educational research dimension of the digital citizenship literature through the studies scanned in the education research category in the WoS database and whose author keywords include digital citizenship. For this purpose, 96 studies were examined. The data set was extracted from WoS database. A bibliometric analysis was conducted for a holistic review of the subject area. The data was analyzed using VOSviewer software. First, the distribution of studies on digital citizenship by years and publication types is reported. Within the scope of bibliometric analysis, first, citation analysis was performed. To reveal the most cited articles, authors, journals, institutions, and countries on digital citizenship. Also, by using the citation analysis, the authors, journals, institutions, and countries that have published the most studies on digital citizenship are reported. In the current study, a coauthor analysis was also performed and the most collaborating institutions on digital citizenship and the most co-cited authors on digital citizenship were studied. In addition, the most used author keywords in studies on digital citizenship were revealed by using a common word analysis. The results of the current study might constitute a guide for further research on digital citizenship.

In this study, international research papers by Turkish scholars on social studies education were investigated. The sample was selected among published journals of education indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database, such as Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-Expanded). The obtained data were analyzed via the bibliometric analysis method using version 1.6.17 of VOSviewer software. The results revealed that the first publication in the relevant indexes was released in 2005, and after 2007 the number of publications showed an increasing trend. In addition, it was found that "Educational Sciences-Theory & Practice" and "Education and Science" were among the international journals that most frequently published papers on social studies education, while Kaya Yilmaz, Arife Figen Ersoy, and Handan Deveci were the most cited authors. Results also revealed that Anadolu University, Marmara University, and Gazi University were identified as the institutions that published most papers while they were also cited most. Finally, the most frequently used common keywords were determined as "social studies", "social studies education", "pre-service social studies teachers"; "academic achievement", "citizenship education" and "values education".