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MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRENDS IN FAMILY LITERACY AND THE ROLE OF LIBRARIES: A BIBLIOMETRIC AND SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW
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This study maps multidisciplinary trends in family literacy research and identifies the position and role of library science within this literature. Although family literacy is studied across education, psychology, linguistics, sociology, and library science, few reviews have systematically compared the contributions of these fields, leaving library science position undocumented. To address this gap, the study combines a bibliometric analysis with a systematic literature review of 43 documents retrieved from Scopus using a search string combining family literacy and library-related terms, published between 2015 and 2026. Metadata were processed with VOSviewer to generate keyword co-occurrence and overlay visualizations, while each document was coded for academic discipline and the extent of library involvement. Results show a fluctuating publication trend, with peaks in 2015, 2021, and 2025. Education accounts for the largest share of the dataset with 22 documents, followed by library science with 10 documents, ahead of psychology, linguistics, and sociology. Libraries appear as a central subject, an explicit reference, or an implicit mention in 21 of the 43 documents, and library-related keywords shift toward more recent publication years. These findings confirm that family literacy is a multidisciplinary field and that library science holds a consistent, visible position within it, alongside education and psychology as the dominant contributors. Future bibliometric work should expand beyond Scopus and apply citation-based methods to clarify this contribution further
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