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This study aims to conduct bibliometric analyses of published articles on spatial thinking, spatial visualization, and spatial ability based on the Web of Science (WoS) database. In this direction, 3114 articles from 1980 to the present were examined according to publication years, countries, WoS categories, authors, institutions, journals, most cited, co-authors, co-keywords, bibliographic coupling, and co-citations. In the study, performance and scientific field mapping analyzes were used. Web of Science™ Core Collection database was used to obtain data, and the VOSviewer program was used for network analysis. According to the performance analysis of the study, it was determined that the articles on the identified issues tended to increase over the years, and more studies were conducted in USA, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Among the WoS categories, Psychology Experimental, Psychology Multidisciplinary and Education Educational Research categories come to the fore. The authors of Hegarty, M., Jansen, P., and Newcombe, N. S. have done further work on the identified issues. In the context of institutions, the University of California System, and Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education Perthe, in the context of journals, Perceptual and Motor Skills and Intelligence come to the fore. Hegarty, M. and Newcombe, N. S. had the highest linking power in the context of the authors, while the states with the most increased connectivity in the context of countries were the USA and the United Kingdom. The most co-keywords were spatial ability, while the University of California Santa Barbara had the most linking strength in bibliographic coupling.

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