Design Studio—A Bibliometric Analysis

Design studio (DS) as teaching approach finds its applications in curriculum design, and DS environments support students of different disciplines to follow sequential curriculums to develop their skills and learning patterns. Visualization of knowledge offers researchers a visual viewpoint and aids in comprehending the overall design structures of certain study topics more effectively. This study presents a systematic bibliometric analysis of the knowledge dynamics and structure, and micro- and macro-hotspots of DS research using VOSviewer. The study covers articles published in journal and conference indexed in the Scopus Database between 1974 and 2022 and implements visualization method to quantify the numbers of articles, referenced sources, cited documents, top-publishing organizations, and production houses in countries focused to outsource research on DS. The study findings would guide scholars and researcher, in particular instructional designers, interested in expanding and broadening the scope and horizon of research concerning DS.