A bibliometric study on realistic mathematics education

In this thesis study, the keywords "realistic mathematics education" or "realistic mathematic education" or "realistic maths" or "realistic mathematical education" were searched in the Scopus database, and 1190 articles on realistic mathematics education were reached between the years 1986-2021 and the obtained data were analyzed by bibliometric analysis method. The data obtained as a result of the search were analyzed under the headings of main information, annual scientific production, average citations per year, tree fields plot, most relevant sources, most local cited sources, bradford's law, source impact, source dynamics, most relevant authors, most local cited authors, author's production over time, lotka's law, author impact, most relevant affilations, corresponding author's country, country scientific production, most cited countries, most global and local cited documents, most frequent words, wordcloud, treemap, word dynamics, trend topics, co-occurrence network, thematic map, thematic evolution, factorial analysis, conceptual structure map, topic dendrogram, co-citation network, collaboration network, country collaboration map through the "biblioshiny", a web interface of the bibliometrix package of the R-Studio program. As a result of the research, considering that realistic mathematics education can be a solution to educational problems in developed or developing countries, it has been observed that scientific publications are needed in this field. Although the keywords were widely chosen, it was seen that there were very few studies with keywords related to realistic mathematics education and it was emphasized that the theoretical contribution to the field is important, considering that it will be a reference for researchers who are interested in the field and who are considering doing research. Keywords: Realistic mathematics education, Bibliometric analysis, R-Studio, Scopus