本研究旨在應用文獻計量學方法分析1971至2019年間有關教育領域之績效責任研究的文獻，共計分析Scopus資料庫中1,568篇學術著作與其參考文獻。文中針對三個問題進行探討：以文獻產量做為權威學者之效能分析，從最高產出作者排序中了解教育績效領域國內外的權威學者；使用高被引文獻分析、歷史圖像分析與文獻共被引分析，找出該領域之重要關鍵文獻，並透過可視化方式了解教育績效領域之發展脈絡；最後，使用文字雲、關鍵詞共現、對應分析與主題地圖，試圖找出研究領域的熱門主題，並在最後探討教育績效責任文獻中的未來路徑，對該領域可能的發展提出見解。

According to the bibliometric analysis, this study analyzes the accountability in education research published in the English-language journals from 1971 to 2019. A total of 1568 bibliographic records and their references were retrieved from the Scopus databases. The paper includes three parts to explore. First, using most cited authors as the authoritative scholar’s effectiveness, we can understand the important scholars of accountability in education domain. Second, using high-cited papers, historiographic analysis and document co-citation analysis, we can quickly identify the key papers and visualize the development of educational accountability. Finally, this study using word cloud, keyword co-occurrence, correspondence analysis and theme map, trying to find out the popular research themes. We conclude the paper with a discussion on future pathways in educational accountability literature.