Bibliometric analysis of teacher training trends in environmental education with a focus on sustainable development suported by e-learning

Putting environmental education at the center of global conversation and going from being a fad to a necessity, today requires urgent actions that contribute to reversing the spiral of destruction that has been inflicted on the planet and the species that inhabit it. If this situation is not reversed, it will be too late. Under this scenario, the educational systems, especially teachers in charge of the teaching process, are the ones who must play a fundamental role in raising awareness towards a real transformation of how human beings relate to each other and the planet. This research document was developed in the city of Florencia Caquetá, with the objective of carrying out a scientific bibliometric analysis. This is of an exploratory-descriptive nature based on a question developed with the PICO strategy, where the trends in teacher training are set with the support of  E-learning on environmental education from the sustainable development proposal. The indicators used focused on academic publications and their impact. The scientific production analyzed were 312 documents and covers the period from 2012 to the first half of 2024. For this, the PRISMA methodology was followed, which guides the systematic review based on a list of requirements from which the bibliographic base of abstracts and citations from Scopus is proposed as a query. For the data analysis was carried out through Bibliometrix R package from Biblioshiny and the computer tool VosViewer. The quantitative analysis of the categories studied shows that the magazine that publishes the most topics on teacher training in environmental education is the magazine Sustainability Switzerland with 173 publications and China as the country that publishes the most with a decrease in this type of publications and the word Sustainability, teaching and e-learning are in the center of the heat map.