Cyberbullying and Education: State of the Art and Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to show a state of the art of "cyberbullying". Thus, we have extracted the documents from databases in Web of Science (the search results of "cyberbull∗" were 2,227) and they were examined with the bibliographic analysis tool VOSviewer. The analyses carried out on the documents were, on the one hand, descriptive, on the evolution of the number of articles on cyberbullying and the areas of research. On the other hand, the co-occurrences of the keywords and co-authorship, highlighting the nationality and the leading authors in number of citations. The results show a growth in the interest of investigating cyberbullying, specifically between psychology and education. The keywords focus on victimization and adolescence, although youth and gender have recently been highlighted. Despite the most frequent authors come from the United States and Spain which form two clusters, the most cited authors are researchers from Belgium in the area of psychology and communication studies. Cyberbullying affects adolescents and young people in mainly school contexts; this makes education for critical and active digital citizenship to prevent this type of behaviour among peers.