Increasingly Dense and Connected Field: A Longitudinal Co-word Analysis of Youth Sociological Articles from 1990 to 2019

Youth studies represent a research field with visible potential, and its emergence has seen substantial increase in the last decade. A longitudinal bibliometric analysis of sociological articles on youth was conducted using Web Science (WoS) entries, divided into three distinct decades, 1990–2019. From 41 containing keyword “youth” 1990 to 704 2019, this evolution is reflected increasing interconnectedness co-occurrences. Thus, after 2000, keywords such as gender, adolescence, education, race became increasingly popular, while children family structure, which were popular between 1999, subsequently lost their relevance. The thematic cluster reveals new clusters, those centered around social media, LGBTQ, or mental health. growth occurrences for many demonstrates complex heterogeneous development literature, so future trends remain unpredictable but promising at time.