Twenty Years of the Social Skills Learning in Elementary Schools: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Social skills learning is important to be implemented in elementary schools to help students interact with their friends at school and society and be able to overcome conflicts effectively. This study aims to determine the trend of writing articles on social skills learning in elementary schools, the trend of articles with the highest number of citations, the classification of journal rankings, the origin country of the journal, and mapping in finding the trends in international scientific publications with the Scopus database. The method used was bibliometric analysis. Research data from 562 documents published from 2002 to 2022 were obtained from the Scopus database. The data were stored in Microsoft Excel as data processing material in VOS viewer software. The trend of writing articles on social skills learning in elementary schools has increased significantly from 2002 to 2022. The VOS Viewer software mapping analysis has four themes related to social skills learning in elementary schools. The dimly colored themes such as autism social behavior, child preschool, game-based learning to improve social skills, and mental health in social behavior are the themes that are still rarely researched and become themes of novelty in this research. These themes can be an opportunity to be conducted for further research.