Bermejo Fernández-Nieto, Javier ; Fuentes, Juan Luis & González Martín, María del Rosario: The meaning of life as an educational construct in scientific research from 1980 to 2024

_Discover Education_ 1. 2026The objective of this study is, first, to analyze the main trends in scientific publications on the meaning of life and, second, to identify the impact of this focus on educational research. Conceptually, it is understood that the subject has historically been addressed primarily by fields of knowledge such as philosophy, theology, and psychology. Therefore, this bibliometric research seeks to compare the overall volume of publications and how they are distributed in