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The purpose of the research is to make a bibliometric analysis of publications related to the knowledge of the pedagogical field. With this aim, 1760 publications scaned in the Scopus database between 1987 and 2020 have been studied bibliometrically and revealed the trend in the last 34 years. In the database, the scan was carried out using the keyword "pedagogical content knowledge" and the number of publications related to the years, the most published magazines and authors, the authors' index h, the countries of responsible authors and cooperation networks, the most reference field publications, the average annual number of quotations, the authors' reference explosive values, the word cloud, the word tree map and the conceptual structure map subtitles. According to the results obtained, the interest in the subject has increased since 2002. The magazine International Journal of Science Education has published the most articles on the subject, and S. Blömeke, G. Kaiser and M. Rollnick have been the most published writers in the field. Pedagogical field knowledge is most studied in the field of science and mathematics. It is most likely that research is carried out on the structure, development and relationships with other kinds of knowledge in the Pedagogical field. Researchers in Brazil and Korea have been identified as the most open to cooperation researchers. In the keyword and summary section of the articles, the most commonly used concepts are "teaching", "pedagogical content knowledge", "student" and "education" respectively. It is believed that the results obtained will keep the light for the researchers who want to do this research.