Exploring Research Trends in Cultural Values from a Sociological Perspective Islamic Education: A Bibliometric Analysis (1973-2023)

Abstract

The sociology of Islamic education has a significant role in research to understand various aspects of education in the context of Muslim societies; the main objective of this study is to update the current knowledge frontiers around investigations related to cultural values in the sociological perspective of Islamic education and identify the main research topics and analyze their evolution over time. Bibliometric analysis has been applied in this article: we retrieved 315 academic articles related to cultural values from the perspective of Islamic education sociology from Scopus after several data cleaning and preparation steps. The R package "Bibliometrix" was mainly used to analyze this content. Our study has two parts, and the performance analysis contains five categories (Annual Scientific Production, Most Relevant Sources, Most Productive Authors, Most Cited Publications, and Most Relevant Keywords). Science mapping includes country collaboration analysis and thematic analysis. We highlight our thematic analysis by dividing the entire bibliographic dataset into three temporal periods to present thematic evolution over time. This study is one of the most comprehensive bibliometric reviews analyzing studies related to cultural values from Islamic education sociology's perspective so far. We explain how the results will benefit understanding current academic research interests in Islamic cultural values.