To develop and organize the flow of research in the field of "media literacy" from the current situation to the desired state, it is necessary to quantitatively examine and evaluate the problems and research gaps in this field. The present study, in addition to comprehensively reviewing 60 scientific-research publications approved by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology and Islamic Azad University (from 2012 to 2013), attempts to create a database including 128 articles on the topic of media literacy and its relationship with different approaches, and uses the meta-analysis method to examine all the variables present in the text of the articles, including the thematic trend of the articles, The growth trend of articles based on the year of publication, frequency in the journals under review, number of authors and their gender, theoretical basis of the articles, and keywords used. The results showed that the subject group of media literacy education with critical thinking approaches, curriculum and cyberspace had the highest number of articles with 25 articles (20%), the year 1401, with a frequency of 29 article titles (23%), the two scientific research quarterly journals "Religion and Communications" and "Media" had the highest frequency of articles with 11 article titles (9%), Of the total of 128 responsible authors, 93 (73%) were male and 35 (27%) were female. Of the total of 109 theoretical foundations of the articles, James Potter's theoretical foundations of the cognitive field of media literacy were present with a frequency of 35 (32%). Of the 128 articles, 36 articles lacked theoretical foundations, with the highest frequency related to the year 1400 with 14 articles (39%), Of the total 527 keyword titles in the field of "media literacy", the keyword "media literacy" has the highest frequency of 128 (24%).
Media literacy, scientific research article, scientific research publications, meta-analysis.