As computational thinking (CT) has gained more attention as a research topic in the recent decade, a paper to identify trends and development in CT research would be timely and critical to understand the current research landscape and to guide future research endeavors. In this context, this study revealed the change in research trends in the field of CT in the last twelve years with the method of bibliometric mapping analysis. The relevant literature was searched in the SCOPUS database and 321 journal articles were identified. The VOSviewer software was used for analysis of the retrieved dataset. The findings of the study showed that (1) the research on computational thinking is an emerging area that has grown exponentially since the 2013s, (2) the literature in this area has been produced as a result of national and international collaboration of researchers in several institutions and countries, mostly in the United States, (3) the CT research is predominantly published in journals specializing in educational technology and feeds from information generated in education, computing, and social sciences, (4) research topics contributing to the CT literature are grouped under three themes: Integrating CT into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education, experimental studies on assessing CT skills, and discussing on definition of CT and CT skills, and (5) the CT has the general nature of an emerging discipline that is not yet mature, and will continue to evolve in the future. Overall, this work provides the current state of the art in this field and a research direction for future research. It is hoped that this study will accelerate the research in the field, guide new studies and contribute to the development of the field.

随着计算思维 (CT) 在最近十年作为一个研究课题受到越来越多的关注，一篇确定 CT 研究趋势和发展的论文对于了解当前的研究格局和指导未来的研究工作将是及时和关键的。在此背景下，本研究以文献计量映射分析的方法揭示了近十二年来CT领域研究趋势的变化。在 SCOPUS 数据库中检索了相关文献，确定了 321 篇期刊文章。VOSviewer 软件用于分析检索到的数据集。研究结果表明：（1）计算思维研究是一个新兴领域，自 2013 年代以来呈指数级增长，(2) 该领域的文献是多个机构和国家的研究人员在国内和国际合作的结果，主要在美国，(3) CT 研究主要发表在专门研究教育技术和饲料的期刊上从教育、计算和社会科学中产生的信息中，(4) 有助于 CT 文献的研究主题分为三个主题：将 CT 整合到科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 教育中，评估 CT 技能的实验研究，并讨论CT的定义和CT技能，以及（5）CT具有新兴学科的一般性质，尚不成熟，未来将继续发展。全面的，这项工作提供了该领域的最新技术和未来研究的研究方向。希望本研究能加速该领域的研究，引导新的研究，为该领域的发展做出贡献。