A bibliometric review on spatial ability studies in education

In the current study, it is aimed to bibliometrically examine the published scientific documents on spatial ability in the field of education. Within the scope of the research, a scan was performed using the formula -“spatial abil*” and “educat*”- in the Web of Science (WoS) database. VOSviewer program has been used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the analysis, 1317 scientific studies published between 1975-2022 were reached. The first study published in WoS in the related subject area belongs to the year 1984. The most publications on the concept of spatial ability, which began to gain popularity as of the 2000s, were produced in 2020. The country that produces the most publications, has the strongest relationship network and receives the most citations is the USA. The organization with the strongest relationship network is Tomsk State University, the organization with the most publications is La Laguna University, and the organization with the most citations is Vanderbilt University. The scientific document with the strongest relationship network and the most cited is Wai et al. (2009). The scientific resource with the strongest citation relationship and the highest number of citations is the Journal of Educational Psychology