Working Memory and Creativity: A Bibliometric Analysis Using VOSviewer

Abstract

To provide researchers with a systematic reference on initial contact with working memory and creativity, we elucidated an essential bibliometric analysis of publications based on the Web of Science database. Results were as follows: (a) Related research started in 2003 and entered a period of rapid development since 2013, with more than 20 articles published annually; (b) Roger E. Beaty and Benedek Mathias had the most publications, while Ryuta Kawashima, Hikaru Takeuchi, and Yasuyuki Taki had the most extensive cooperation with others; (c) only 9 out of 527 organizations had formed locally finite cooperative networks; and (d) eight major research popular topics were identified: creativity, cognition, memory, working memory, performance, fMRI, cognitive control, and brain. Enhancing the study of the neural mechanisms of working memory and creativity through fMRI or functional connectivity is of great significance so that we can understand how brain regions interact not only with brain regions that are directly connected structurally but also with those that are not structurally connected.