Abstract

The demand for STEM education has increased in the twenty-first century's technological era. Researchers' interest has increased in intention to study STEM research field. In order to analyze the development of this research field, this study will do a citation analysis of publications titled "Intention to study STEM among youth" that have been published in educational journals and are available on the Web of Science (WoS) database. We used the Web of Science database to conduct a bibliometric study of 122 papers on the topic ‘the intention to study STEM’ that were published in scholarly journals. VOSviewer was used in this study to assess and perform a bibliometric analysis. Annual trends, journals, publishers, research fields, publishing sources, organizations, keywords, categories, and researchers were all taken into account in statistical analyses of publications. The analysis revealed that: (1) Developed nations including the United States, Spain, Israel, and Germany accounted for the majority of STEM research intentions. (2) The three top most commonly appearing keywords for intention to study STEM literature were STEM, career choice, and gender. (3) Education and educational research were commonly linked to the intention to study STEM literature. The findings support the inclusion of the intention to study STEM from larger geographical contexts and point to the necessity for more multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies on this topic.