A Panoramic View on International Higher Education Studies from a Global Perspective

Abstract

With globalization, international education has become much more accessible to more people around the world. International higher education (IHE) has been among the most studied topics in higher education in recent years. In this context, the present study aims to investigate the studies conducted on IHE through a systematic literature review by analyzing studies published between 1965 and 2021 and employs social network analysis (SNA) and text-mining techniques. All these findings show that global, national, and institutional strategies are effective in the increase of interest in international education and especially in the increase of research. In this connection, this study provides an overview of trends; academic production in IHE has been researched with the data mining and analytics approaches, bibliometric method and the analysis of social networks. Thus, a better understanding and interpretation of the leading themes in the literature of internationalization in higher education is possible to achieve a better understanding of the field of intellectual scientific knowledge in the literature on globalization and IHE.