Incidence of Design-Based Research Methodology in Science Education Articles: A Bibliometric Analysis

The design-based research (DBR) methodology has been standing out in the field of educational promising to adapt different scenarios and boost development innovations. However, 17 years after beginning use this methodology, there are still doubts about its potentiality. Given this, it is necessary ascertain which contexts used what advances related it. Thus, bibliometric mapping was carried paper generate indicators studies on DBR, indicate relationship with Science Education situate Brazilian production international context. study identified distribution publications by year, according number publications, main journals where these articles were published, authors nationality, most cited articles, keywords, network collaboration between authors. Data showed that last five have for DBR North Americans those who published more methodology. Despite growing makes little applications found teacher education, student motivation, information communication technologies teaching learning.