People, Ideas, Milestones: A Scientometric Study of Computational Thinking

The momentum around computational thinking (CT) has kindled a rising wave of research initiatives and scholarly contributions seeking to capitalize on the opportunities that CT could bring. A number literature reviews have showed vibrant community practitioners growing publications. However, history evolution emerging topic, milestone publications shaped its directions, timeline important developments may be better told through quantitative, scientometric narrative. This article presents bibliometric analysis drivers as well main themes research, international collaborations, influential authors, seminal publications, how authors influenced one another. metadata 1,874 documents were retrieved from Scopus database using keyword “computational thinking.” results show been US-centric start, continues dominated by US researchers both in volume impact. International collaboration is relatively low, but clusters joint are found between, for example, Nordic countries, lusophone- hispanophone central European countries. features computing’s traditional tripartite disciplinary structure (design, modeling, theory), distinct emphasis programming, strong pedagogical educational backdrop including constructionism, self-efficacy, motivation, teacher training.