The purpose of the current study is to analyse bibliometric features of the articles on argumentation available in the WoS (Web of Science) database.  A total number of 2176 articles on argumentation were determined on the date of 26 March 2020. The number of articles and citations across the years, prominent institutions and countries publishing the articles, collaborations between the countries, having the highest co-citations in the references of the articles were determined through the use of descriptive and bibliometric analyses. Also, the most frequent co-occurrences of the keywords in the articles on argumentation were revealed. As a result of the research, the country that comes to the fore in terms of the number of articles in the field of argumentation is the USA (America), while the UK (England) is a country with high influences in this field in terms of highest link strength and collaborations. Other findings of the study revealed that research in the field of argumentation has been carried out in many disciplines such as science and science education and mathematics education, mathematics and logic, applications of the artificial intelligence in computer science and linguistics. However, it can be said that research in the field of argumentation made the most progress in science education. In addition, the most cited articles in co-citations belong to Driver, Newton and Osborne (2000) and Osborne, Erduran and Simon (2004) and Zohar and Nemet (2002). Also, Toulmin’s (1958) book of the “Uses of Argument” receives remarkable citations. Moreover, the co-occurrences of the keywords found to be used the most frequently in the articles are argumentation, abstract argumentation, discourse analysis, argumentation theory, critical thinking, computational complexity and argumentation semantic.

Argumentation, bibliometric analysis, and science education