Bibliometric Computational Mapping Analysis of Publications on Computational Thinking in Science Education using VOSviewer

Abstract

The use of computing tools has provided support for learning science content and assisted students in understanding modern science experiences. Therefore, students must have an understanding on how computation could be useful for supporting science learning goals. In other words, students need a new skill to fulfil the tasks, that is computational thinking. This study aims to determine the development of research on computational thinking in science education through a bibliometric approach using the VOSviewer application. The article data was obtained from the Google Scholar database. The application used to obtain the article data was Publish or Perish. The keyword used to search for articles is "Computational Thinking in Science Education". 344 articles that were considered relevant to these keywords were found. The articles used were articles published in the last 10 years (2013 – 2022). The findings showed that the research on this topic decreased from 57 studies to 13 studies after 2020, and it became very popular in 2020. Furthermore, the research on computational thinking in science education still has a high enough chance to be carried out. We examined how many articles had been published about computational thinking in science education and its relation to problem areas using VOSviewer. We hope that this research can be a starting point for research related to other fields.