The utilization of technology for optimizing statistical thinking: Global trends and directions for future research

The aim of this research is to present a bibliographic and bibliometric review of various documents that study the use of technology in improving statistical thinking abilities. Bibliometric analysis was carried out on 25 documents that met the requirements from the Scopus database published from 2014 to 2023 as research material. The research results show that the publication trend of technology and statistical thinking studies tends to increase from 2014 to 2023. Meanwhile, the trend of citations in documents regarding technology and statistical thinking studies tends to fluctuate. Productive and influential documents, authors, countries, institutions, and sources have made the greatest contribution to the development of technology and statistical thinking studies. Additionally, several main themes emerged related to the study of technology and statistical thinking, including teaching, students, and statistics.