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A bibliometric analysis of the journal Nordidactica
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Centre for the Studies of Social Sciences Didactics (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5081-0154
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5497-720x
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Nordidactica (https://journals.lub.lu.se/nordidactica) is a Nordic journal for research on humanities and social science education, published by Karlstad university since 2011. Of particular interest of the journal is subject didaktik within the aforementioned fields. The presenters of this paper have recently taken position as editors of the journal and are interested in Nordidactica’s development over time. The aim of this paper is to present a bibliometric analysis of the journal. Bibliometrics is a statistical method for analyzing bibliographic data, particularly suitable for handling large datasets (Donthuet al., 2021; Petticrew & Roberts, 2006). Humanities and social science research is not as well-indexed as medicine and the natural sciences, rendering the usual bibliometric analytical tools, such as Gephi, Leximancer, VOSviewer and the like unfit for our purposes (Kemeç & Altınay, 2023; Mongeon, 2016; Lasda Bergman, 2012). We will instead use Bifrost (https://bifrost.kau.se), an analytical tool for analyzing bibliometric data from the Swedish databases DiVA (http://diva-portal.org/) and SwePub (https://swepub.kb.se). Since 2011, 330 different scholars (co-authors included) from 12 countries have authored 319 articles (reviews and research articles) in Nordidactica. This will then be our material, gathered and analyzed using Bifrost, to explore trends of research historically and today in the journal. This will, for example, include an analysis of keywords, scholars, subjects, materials and methods used in the published articles. To conclude, we will discuss the implications of the results, and possible develompents of the journal for the future. This will be of interest to the journal’s readers, authors, well as to scholars in the field of subject didactics.

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Syddansk Universitet, 2025.
Keywords [en]
subject didactics, bibliometrics, systematic review, humanities, social sciences, bifrost
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Information Studies Didactics
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Subject-specific education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-104362OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-104362DiVA, id: diva2:1958142
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NoFaX: The10th Nordic Conference on subject didactics
Available from: 2025-05-13 Created: 2025-05-13 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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