Fifty‐three years of the <i>Journal of Engineering Education</i>: A bibliometric overview

Background The Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) is a leading academic journal that serves to cultivate, disseminate, and archive scholarly research in engineering education. Bibliometric analysis has been gaining considerable interest from the scientific community recent years. However, best our knowledge, bibliometric was not employed analyze publications JEE. Purpose In recognition JEE's 111 years publication, this paper uses provide retrospective overview. This study analyzes publication characteristics, influence, collaborative relationship It also provides data for development future research. Method A total 1251 articles JEE were retrieved Scopus database bibliographic using VOSviewer (Van Eck Waltman, Scientometrics 2010; 84(2):523–538). search performed mid-November 2021 term “Journal Education” “Publication Titles” field, yielding 1379 documents between 1969 2021. We excluded editorials notes only included articles, reviews, conference papers. Results increasing contribution influence within empirical regarding quantity quality/citations its published articles. top contributing institutions are mainly United States. Major themes identified include knowledge acquisition skill development, diversity inclusion, assessment, learning mechanisms, instrument measurement. Conclusions Emerging technologies challenges new topics directions Additionally, uncovers certain gaps JEE—to increase contributions influence—can identify as growth areas.