Knowledge Diffusion in Vocational Education and Training: A Scientrometric Study

This study is an attempt to highlight the knowledge diffusion in the form of publications in Vocational Education and Training. The efforts have been made to explore the periodic growth and development of literature. To make the quantitative analysis by way of evaluating different factors of knowledge diffusion (KD) and dissemination, the output based on Core Collection of the Web of Science (WoS) database is examined. A total of 3703 documents were published during the period 2006–2015 in VET domain, which received 26940 citations. The average number of documents published per year is 370.30. The publications peaked in 2015 with the total 671 publications. The highest number of publications was from the England with 1196 (32.29%) publications followed by the USA with 1160 (31.32%), Germany with 287 (7.75%) publications. The Study has identified 25 most productive journals. The h-index is 55 in the field of VET. The study has reported 13 highly cited papers during the period having citation ≥100 forming the citations classic in the VET. Thus, constitutes the core of the subject by attaining 9.13% of total citations received during the period. The study finds that during the period of study 7.27 average citations per item received by the publications.