Abstract
PurposeThe advance in higher education in Asian countries is of major interest because it reveals increasing global political and cultural influence in recent years. The review explores the characteristics of publications from 2013–2018 concerned with the internationalisation of higher education in Asia. The study aims to analyse the current trajectory, including the size, growth trends, and regional networking of this domain, with a goal of identifying the influential journals, authors, and documents, as well exploring the thematic structure and topical issues and trends of this domain.Design/methodology/approach241 Scopus-indexed documents were selected and reviewed using a quantitative descriptive way. These documents were analysed by VOS viewer software.FindingsThe results show the most topical issues and trends concern about “Asian immigration and mobility”, “transnational education”, “international students and acculturation”, and “international branch campuses”. Seven main schools of thought were identified and are clearly explained herein, which provides a baseline for future research for new scholars.Social implicationsThe present study suggests that trans-regional cooperation is the future of internationalisation in higher education. Asian scholars are recommended to increase cooperation and exchanges with each other, expand channels of contact, further understand and optimise their own advantages, achieve win-win cooperation and make Asia's voice heard in the world in higher education field.Originality/valueThis bibliometric review can predict the main trends in higher education internationalisation in the future and encourage implication of interdisciplinary research in higher education internationalisation.
Highlights
Over the past decades, “internationalisation” in higher education has been perceived as a world phenomenon, especially since the late 1980s, and has developed into an educational vision that provides the global community with an education that meets the current needs (Altbach, 2002; Bennell and Pearce, 2003; Gacel-A vila, 2005)
4.1 Global trajectory of higher education internationalisation research Initially, in order to see the global trajectory of higher education internationalisation, a total of 1,179 articles were retrieved using keywords “interntaionlisation” OR “interntaionalization”
5.1 Who published most research of higher education internationalisation in Asia? The regional distribution of publications reflects the degree of attention to higher education internationalisation research in different academic circles, which can be judged the location of international academic centers for higher education research
Summary
“internationalisation” in higher education has been perceived as a world phenomenon, especially since the late 1980s, and has developed into an educational vision that provides the global community with an education that meets the current needs (Altbach, 2002; Bennell and Pearce, 2003; Gacel-A vila, 2005). © Yang Can and Angela Yung Chi Hou. Published in Higher Education Evaluation and Development. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons. org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode
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