  A publication trend in Physics Education by employing bibliometric analysis
leads the researchers to describe current scientific movement. This paper tries
to answer "What do Physics education scientists concentrate in their
publications?" by analyzing the productivity and development of publications on
the subject category of Physics Education in the period 1980--2013. The Web of
Science databases in the research areas of "EDUCATION - EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH"
was used to extract the publication trends. The study involves 1360
publications, including 840 articles, 503 proceedings paper, 22 reviews, 7
editorial material, 6 Book review, and one Biographical item. Number of
publications with "Physical Education" in topic increased from 0.14 % (n = 2)
in 1980 to 16.54 % (n = 225) in 2011. Total number of receiving citations is
8071, with approximately citations per papers of 5.93. The results show the
publication and citations in Physic Education has increased dramatically while
the Malaysian share is well ranked.
