Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD student/Allameh Tabatabai University

2 Associate Professor/Allameh Tabatabai University

3 Associate Professor / Department of Educational Psychology, School of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Faculty of Psychology & Educational sciences, allameh tabatabaei university

5 Associate Professor/ Allameh Tabatabai University

Abstract

Purpose: This research tries to study the knowledge map in the research published in the Web of Science database in the field of sexual education by using the techniques of co-occurrence analysis of words, using the approaches of network analysis and scientific visualization. Methodology: In a descriptive analytical study, the number of 1556 scientific resources on sex education from the Web of Science database was subjected to bibliometric analysis. Data analysis was done by the facilities of this database as well as the VOS viewer software, which is a social network analysis software. Findings: The retrieved sources covered scientific productions from 1909 to 2021. The results of the study showed an upward trend in the publication of sex education articles in the last ten years. The highest number of articles in 2019 was 190 articles. The most publications in this field were in the form of original research articles (62.661%) and from American countries (38.368%). The studied documents showed that concepts such as: educational research, occupational health of the public environment, psychology are among the most widely used fields in the field of sex education research at the international level. Drawing the co-authorship network of magazines on the topic of sex education was displayed in 6 clusters with 393 co-authorships. Key words changed from pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted diseases to sexual identification and then the prevention of mental injuries. Conclusion: Since the topic of sex education has been widely considered in the countries of the world and in Iran.

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