Internationalization of higher education in Asia: a bibliometric analysis based on Scopus database from 2003 to 2022

Figures & data

Figure 1. Key figures of the data collection on IoHE in Asia. Source: Analysis results obtained with Biblioshiny software.

Table 1. Data overview.

Timespan	2003:2022
Sources (Journals, Books, etc.)	228
Documents	416
Annual Growth Rate %	18.21
Document Average Age	5.49
Average citations per doc	18.76
References	21076
DOCUMENT CONTENTS
Keywords Plus (ID)	397
Author’s Keywords (DE)	1196
AUTHORS
Authors	850
Authors of single-authored docs	127
AUTHORS COLLABORATION
Single-authored docs	140
Co-Authors per Doc	2.26
International co-authorships %	21.88
DOCUMENT TYPES
Article	352
Book	2
Book chapter	28
Conference paper	15
Editorial	1
Retracted	1
Review	13

Table 2. List of 46 countries with publications on IoHE in Asia.

No.	Country	Number of publications	Number of citations	Citation rate	Ranking	Country	Number of publications	Number of citations	Citation rate
1	US	67	1907	32	24	South Africa	6	52	3
2	China	52	477	23	25	Spain	6	66	4
3	UK	44	1097	20	26	Vietnam	6	21	3
4	Australia	39	709	14	27	Belgium	5	35	3
5	Hong Kong	36	513	13	28	Denmark	5	17	2
6	Japan	34	636	12	29	Iran	5	15	0
7	Canada	26	1615	15	30	Israel	5	83	1
8	Taiwan	22	299	9	31	Indonesia	4	3	1
9	Malaysia	15	185	4	32	Colombia	3	18	0
10	South Korea	15	487	7	33	Italy	3	15	2
11	India	10	17	2	34	Norway	3	17	3
12	Thailand	10	57	5	35	Philippines	3	9	1
13	Finland	9	70	5	36	Poland	3	9	2
14	Netherlands	9	141	3	37	Saudi Arabia	3	61	2
15	Russian Federation	9	38	5	38	Sweden	3	20	1
16	Singapore	8	184	2	39	Austria	2	3	2
17	France	7	28	4	40	Brazil	2	1	0
18	Germany	7	29	4	41	Brunei Darussalam	2	8	2
19	Kazakhstan	7	49	3	42	Chile	2	6	0
20	New Zealand	7	162	5	43	Egypt	2	1	2
21	Turkey	7	54	0	44	Pakistan	2	5	1
22	Mexico	6	19	3	45	Qatar	2	1	1
23	Portugal	6	121	4	46	United Arab Emirates	2	32	1

Source: Analysis results obtained with VOSviewer software.

Figure 2. Visual representation of the countries’ publications and collaborations. Source: Analysis results obtained with VOSviewer software.

Table 3. Journals and publishing houses with the greatest publications on IoHE in Asia.

No.	Sources	Articles
1.	Journal of Studies in International Education	48
2.	Higher Education	31
3.	Higher Education Policy	11
4.	Studies in Higher Education	11
5.	Asia Pacific Journal of Education	10
6.	Sustainability (Switzerland)	7
7.	International Journal of Comparative Education and Development	6
8.	Asia Pacific Education Review	5
9.	European Journal of Higher Education	5
10.	Frontiers of Education in China	5
11.	Higher Education in Asia	5
12.	Journal of Research in International Education	5
13.	International Education Studies	4
14.	Asian Education and Development Studies	3
15.	Discourse	3
16.	Education in The Asia-Pacific Region	3
17.	Higher Education Research and Development	3
18.	International Journal of Educational Development	3
19.	International Journal of Educational Management	3
20.	Journal of Asian Public Policy	3
21.	Journal of International Students	3
22.	Journal of Teaching in International Business	3
23.	Nurse Education Today	3
24.	On the Horizon	3
25.	Research in Comparative and International Education	3
26.	Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology	3

Source: Analysis results obtained with Biblioshiny software.

Figure 3. Top five organizations with the greatest contributions to research on IoHE in Asia. Source: Analysis results obtained with Biblioshiny software.

Table 4. List of 15 most prolific authors on IoHE in Asia.

No.	Author	Institution	Number of publications	Number of citations
1.	Hugo Horta	The University of Hong Kong	7	127
2.	Jisun Jung	The University of Hong Kong	7	86
3.	Akiyoshi Yonezawa	University of Tohoku, Japan	7	97
4.	Jane Knight	University of Toronto	4	1287
5.	Jack T. Lee	University of Edinburgh, UK	4	92
6.	Jian Li	Indiana University Bloomington	4	26
7.	Miri Yemini	Tel Aviv University, Israel	4	81
8.	Roger Y. Chao Jr.	City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong	3	26
9.	K.-C. Ho	National University of Singapore	3	73
10.	Hyondong Kim	Dongguk University, US	3	33
11.	Phan Le Ha	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, US	3	77
12.	Barbara Sporn	Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria	3	96
13.	Ka Ho Mok	Lingnan University	3	188
14.	Anatoly Oleksiyenko	The Education University of Hong Kong	3	68
15.	Ly Thi Tran	Deakin University, Australia	3	64

Source: Analysis results obtained with VOSviewer software.

Figure 4. Corresponding authors’ country. Source: Analysis results obtained with Biblioshiny software.

Figure 5. Visual representation of the most common keywords in the publications on IoHE in Asia. Source: Analysis results obtained with VOSviewer software.

Figure 6. Keyword wordcloud. Source: Analysis results obtained with Biblioshiny software.