A systematic review of computational thinking: Analysing research hot spots and trends by CiteSpace

Abstract

Computational Thinking (CT) has become popular in recent years and has been recognized as an essential skill for digital citizen. As the literature grows rapidly, a systematic review of CT and its current challenges becomes essential. Taking 395 pieces of journal articles and proceeding papers about CT research included in ISI Web of Science from 1979 to 2018 as samples, this study adopts bibliometric analysis method and visual knowledge analysis tool CiteSpace to carry out in-depth exploration of aspects such as development status, developing trend, and hot subjects of computational thinking research. The result identifies time and spatial distribution, major intellectual cooperation network, cooccurrence keywords, research clusters and landmark articles of CT.