Scopus Design Thinking & Creative Thinking.csv

Design thinking and creative thinking skills have a significant impact on fostering innovation across various fields, especially education and technology development. However, the mapping of research related to these two concepts still requires a comprehensive understanding to identify global collaboration trends and patterns. This study aims to examine the thematic trends, evolution of concepts, and collaborative connections between countries through a bibliometric method. To map keyword, author, and international collaboration networks, keywords were analyzed using Scopus database and VOS viewer software. Design thinking relates more to innovation, design education, and sustainability, whereas creative thinking relates more to problem solving, active learning, and critical thinking according to the analysis. Trends include the United States, China and Indonesia as being dominant in terms of international scientific collaboration, and a prospective strengthening of ties between European and East Asian countries. The visualization of knowledge networks and the mapping of international collaborations is the second key contribution of this research and providing opportunities for fure research. It is anticipated that this finding will be a reference for researchers and practitioners in conducting more integrated and useful research in the future.