Visualization Study of the Literature on School-Based Sexual Education

Abstract

To explore the hot issues and developing trend of the research of school-based sexual education, and to provide a mirror and reference for the research on school-based sexual education in China. In the past decade, totally 1717 effective documents included in the “Web of Science” core set database were used as research objects, and CiteSpace V software was used for visual analysis. The data collection time was March 8, 2025. At present, the publications in this field were mainly in the United States(383), Brazil(227), Australia(136), South Africa(108), et al; the top three research institutions were “Univ Auckland in New Zealand” (24), “Univ KwaZulu Natal in South Africa” (22), “Australia Deakin Univ” (18); the high-impact journal was “Journal of Adolescent Health”; the main authors were “Goldman J D G ”“Louisa Allen”“Dennis A Francis”, et al. the most frequent cited authors were “Kirby D”“UNESCO”“Michel Foucault”, et al; the field has been developed on the basis of “Sociology of Education”, “Artistic Psychology”, “Sports and Health”, “Environmental and Ecological Statistics”, and “Linguistics”, and has been integrated in the last three years; high frequency keywords including “sex education” “adolescent” “sexuality” “education” were more common. mutant words including “Sexuality” “America” “Africa” were more common. The research hotspots on school-based sexual education during the past decade include discourse framing of school-based sexual education , expression of different stakeholders, supply-side and demand-side demands. School-based sexual education among Africa , “LGBTQ”, teacher training, cross-fertilization of disciplines will be a hot research topic in the future.