Article
Teacher Digital Competence in Education: A Bibliometric Review and Research Trend Analysis with Emerging Focus on Artificial Intelligence
Jurnal Amal Pendidikan, Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026), hlm. 19–37
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This study employs bibliometric analysis to map the scholarly landscape at the intersection of teacher digital competence and artificial intelligence in education, based on Scopus-indexed publications from 2021 to 2025. The study aims to analyze publication growth trends, citation dynamics, influential sources, conceptual structures, thematic clusters, and the evolution of research topics within this emerging field. Bibliographic data were retrieved from the Scopus database using a targeted search string and analyzed using Biblioshiny (R-bibliometrix) for performance analysis and science mapping. After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, the final dataset comprised 238 documents from 171 sources, with an annual growth rate of 137.09%, confirming that this is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary research area. The findings reveal a dramatic increase in scientific production from 5 documents in 2021 to 158 in 2025, driven largely by the accelerating integration of generative AI technologies into educational practices. Citation analysis demonstrates a time-lag pattern in which publications from 2022 and 2024 accumulate higher average citations, while 2024 publications achieved the highest mean citations per year (7.53), indicating rapid scholarly uptake of AI-related educational themes. Conceptual structure and co-word analyses reveal that artificial intelligence, teaching, teacher training, digital competence, AI literacy, and professional development constitute the central conceptual ecosystem of the field, with generative AI, ChatGPT, digital ethics, and machine learning emerging as dominant and strategically relevant themes. The findings indicate a clear paradigm shift from general ICT integration toward AI-oriented teacher competence, with significant implications for educational policy, teacher professional development programs, and AI integration strategies, particularly within the Indonesian context of the Merdeka Curriculum and Guru Penggerak Program.