There is an increasing number of articles related to gender justice and urban public spaces, which requires the necessity of refining, summarizing, and classifying scientific findings and results to advance science and fill gaps in knowledge. The purpose of this research is to analyze the scientometric analysis of gender justice studies in public spaces to discover the main issues and developments, as well as to find the emerging performance trends of articles and magazines, to recognize the patterns of cooperation between countries and the co-citation of authors in world literature. To achieve these goals, scientometric analysis was used. In this way, to discover issues such as the time of occurrence of keywords, authorship, and citation of cited sources, quantitative methods have been used.

Method:
The current research is quantitative in terms of approach and applied in terms of purpose, which was carried out by scientometric method (co-occurrence analysis, co-authorship analysis, and co-reference analysis). The research community consists of scientific papers and documents of global researchers in the field of gender justice and public spaces who are indexed in the Scopus database between 1991 and 2024 and have the phrase gender justice and public spaces in the abstract, title, or keywords of their documents. Scopus database was used because it is a stronger database than Web of Science and provides access to more journals. Network analysis method and VOS viewer software were used to illustrate the network of co-occurrence, co-authorship, and co-citation.

Findings:
In the Scopus advanced search, the two keywords combined "gender justice" and "public space" without creating a specific restriction in the title, abstract, and keywords indicated the existence of 200 documents during the years 1991 to 2024, of which the most frequent articles in 2021, there were 23 articles. It should also be mentioned that during many years from 1992 to 1999, 2001, 2004, and 2005, no articles were published with the mentioned keywords. The keyword "social justice" is ranked second with the highest number of co-occurrences with 27 keywords. In addition to this, the keywords city, urban area, green space, violence, discrimination, and transgender are among the keywords of interest to researchers in recent years. Co-citation analysis based on authors shows that the highest number of citations is related to Elaine Unterhalter with a link strength of 100. After him, Judith Butler is in second place with 34 citations and 459 link power, and David Harvey is in third place with 33 citations and 429 link power. Also, the co-citation analysis based on cited sources shows that the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research has been cited 33 times and the citation strength of this source with other sources is 347, which has the highest number of citations among the sources. Finally, the analysis of scientific cooperation at the level of countries shows that the United States has the highest number of documents, citations, and linking power of 69 documents, 876 citations, and 16 linking powers, among other countries.

Conclusion:
The results show that some of the keywords are of recent interest to researchers regarding the emerging issues and challenges facing cities, which include keywords such as city, urban area, green space, violence, discrimination, and transgender. Another group of keywords such as sexual assault, discrimination, citizenship, gender justice, decision-making, the United States, etc., based on the frequency of their occurrence, receive less attention in research. Of course, it should be mentioned that it is natural that some of these keywords have recently been included in studies, which can be expected to see less research. This study with the co-occurrence analysis of the occurrence of keywords (in three visualization views, data density, network overlap), citation based on authors and cited sources, as well as scientific cooperation based on countries in the network visualization view as a comprehensive review is considered. The network analysis based on authors show that the highest number of citations is related to Elaine Unterhalter. Also, the co-citation analysis based on cited sources shows that the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research has been cited 33 times, which has the highest number of citations among the sources. Finally, the analysis of scientific cooperation at the level of countries shows that the United States has the largest number of documents, citations, and linking power among other countries. Future researchers can use each of the existing keywords as potential subject areas of gender justice in public spaces. Also, considering that the country of Iran has not cooperated with other countries in the field of research, it is suggested to use this opportunity for cooperation for future research.