Career Decision-Making Among High School Students: A Bibliometric Analysis

Career decision-making is critical for high school students, guiding their choice between further education, vocational training, or entering the workforce and shaping their future development. This study aims to identify and analyze the research trend of career decision-making among high school students. This study collected 174 studies from the SCOPUS database using a bibliometric approach with career decision-making among high.school students as the main keyword. VOSviewer and Microsoft Excel were employed as the primary analytical tools. This research focused on three distinct types of analysis: (1) document citation via the use of co-citation analysis that produced 5 clusters; (2) document cited reference through the use of bibliographic coupling that generated 4 clusters; and (3) document keyword through the use of co-word analysis that generated 5 clusters. The research findings offer meaningful perspectives on the current landscape of career decision-making studies and highlight potential directions for future studies in this field.