Bibliometric Analysis of Scientific Creativity Studies in WoS and Scopus Databases

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the trends in recent years by focusing on the bibliometric results of previous studies on scientific creativity. For this purpose, a total of 370 publications on scientific creativity obtained from Web of Science and Scopus databases were examined in terms of different bibliometric variables, and they were presented with visuals and tables. Bibliometric analyses of the publications in both databases were performed separately. Afterwards, a comparison of the top 10 studies that stand out in terms of scientific creativity studies in both databases was made and they were integrated with each other. Tables and images were created using the VOSviewer package program. The results of the study showed that the most frequently used keywords in research in both databases were “scientific creativity” and “creativity”. In both databases, the countries that had the highest number of studies and whose scientific studies were most cited were determined as USA and China. In addition, it was also determined that the top three most cited authors in scientific creativity studies in both databases were D. K. Simonton, W. Hu, and R. J. Sternberg.