Sexual Education to Realize Reproductive Health: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1991-2024

Abstract

Sexual education has not been an interesting topic to study in realizing optimal reproductive health. Therefore, it is necessary to have a systematic visualization as a scientometric report, so as to increase researchers' interest in studying the theme. The purpose of this study is to find out the latest literacy developments, analyze collaboration, and make strategic decisions regarding the theme of sexual education and reproductive health research. This type of research is descriptive quantitative using bibliometric statistics. Research data were obtained from Scopus indexed journals and through the Publish or Perish reference manager application for Google Scholar indexed journals. The research was conducted on September 17-20, 2024. The keywords were "sexual education" and "reproductive health". Articles analyzed from 1991 to 2024, for Scopus indexed articles, the document type of the article is in English and can be accessed without payment, besides that there are no restrictions on articles, so 566 relevant articles were obtained. Google Scholar indexed articles found 999 articles. Data were analyzed and visualized using the VOSviewer application. Bibliometric analysis shows the development of research on sexual education for reproductive health is still limited, collaboration between researchers is still lacking, the trend of increasing research has been seen. Publications based on the most keywords are "health reproduction", the country that dominates this publication is the United States, the dominant author and affiliation is the World Health Organization. In conclusion, there is a great opportunity for researchers to raise the theme of scope, targets, diseases, promotive and preventive policies related to reproductive health.