Bibliometric analysis of scientific production: Inclusive education and special educational needs as research arists

Abstract

The purpose of this review article, from the perspective of retrospective descriptive bibliometric analysis, is to know and understand the evolution of scientific production around inclusive education, particularly from the school, social, political and cultural consideration of special educational needs (SEN); recognized in 1994 by the Declaration of Salamanca through the establishment of the framework for action. In this sense, a total of 65 scientific articles, published during the years 2001-2021, were selected from the Scopus Elseiver reference database, all of them in the final stage of dissemination. Regarding the processing of the analysis unit, the Mendeley bibliographic manager and the Bibliometrix tool (R Studio Cloud) with its Biblioshiny interface were implemented, prioritizing four areas of analysis; sources, authors, documents and intellectual structure. The results allowed to elucidate that the largest number of articles corresponds to the region of South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Spain and the United States, in the same way it was established that the year with the highest production was 2019 with a total of 9 articles, followed by 2018, 2016, 2014 and 2011, each with 6 studies. Additionally, a common theoretical basis was found; related to seven authors of British and Australian descent.