Abstract

This paper aims to analyze academic production on the family-school relationship from research in Spanish during the last decade (2008-2018). A total of 564 papers indexed in the Scopus, Web of Science (WoS), and SciELO databases were analyzed. To do this, the descriptive bibliometric method was used to analyze the academic production and characterize the research dynamics of these studies, through an analysis of academic social networks. The VOSviewer 16.1 software was used to design bibliometric maps based on text and bibliographic data. The results show that academic production does not present clear growth; on the contrary, there are fluctuations due to increases and decreases in publications. Also observed are niches of work formed through small academic communities of a closed nature . The greatest impact of academic production in terms of citations is to be found in the Scopus and WoS databases. On the other hand, the content analysis of the 12 most cited papers shows high heterogeneity regarding the themes around which the family-school studies are articulated. Given these results, it is reasonable to consider that more scientific production in Spanish is needed in this field to provide evidence to consolidate the approach to and discussion of the family-school relationship.