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A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Trends in Guidance Office Support Systems

Kizea Bien S. Igaya | John Vincent F. Tiu | Mark Ivan J. Villaster | Jennifer P. Solis

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This study presents a bibliometric analysis of the research on guidance office support systems to better understand the emerging trends in this field. At this point, a more developed technology, guidance office support systems show importance in addressing the needs of students, even in terms of academic, personal, and well-being of students, making it a need to examine how research in this field is being discussed and evolves over time. With the use of the Scopus database, 293 documents were collected, but it decreased to a total of 288 documents after they were cleaned by removing duplicates and Using TRIM() Function to unwanted spaces in Excel. The cleaned dataset with 288 documents was analyzed using the Bibliometrix package in R Studio. The Biblioshiny interface was used to generate the bibliometric indicators and visualizations, which include keyword networks, institutional productivity charts, and citation analy-sis, which helps to identify the major research themes and publications within the dataset. For the analysis of the dataset, Most Relevant Affilia-tions, Most Global Cited Documents, Word Cloud, and Density Co-occur-rence Network are used to understand how the field has evolved over time. Results show that research interest in digital support for guidance offices is steadily increasing, with leading institutions consistently pro-ducing studies related to guidance office support systems. On top of that, some of the works also show how technologies like artificial intelligence, information systems, and decision-support tools are being integrated to improve these services, but they are less studied, which is why there is a need for the development of guidance office support systems. Also, many existing studies remain broad and do not specifically address guidance office support systems, which reveal gaps in research coverage and real-world implementation.