Bibliometric analysis on educational inspection in the web of science database

Abstract

The Educational Inspection is a body that oversees the quality of education and is regulated by education laws. It is considered a fundamental axis of the teaching and learning processes. The purpose of this paper was to identify all the existing scientific production on this topic in the WoS database. This study has focused on the performance, conceptual relevance and evolution of production on this very important subject for education. For this purpose, a bibliometric study has been carried out based on analytical tracking techniques and documentary quantification by means of an evaluation of performance, analysis of the scientific production of the authors and creation of science maps, identifying the conceptual evolution of the object of study in a longitudinal framework of a total of 369 documents. The results show that the thematic evolution of the field of study is not defined, although a trend can be seen thanks to the research carried out in the second period analysed, between 2011 and 2015, which is the most productive stage in the number of researches about this subject. It is concluded that the object researched is beginning to be of interest to the educational community, thanks to the importance it is raising on the part of the scientific community.