Bibliometric Analysis of Higher Education Restructuring

Abstract

The spread of competitive elements and the well-being of human capital increase productivity capacities in scientific content. Research and development activities are prioritized in higher education, international trends and modern paradigms are taken into consideration. In the study, a visual map of the studies prepared on the restructuring of higher education on a global scale was prepared and it was aimed to determine the trends in the literature with bibliometric analysis. Between 2002 and 2022, a total of 585 articles in the Scopus and WoS database were identified and analyzed by keyword analysis, cooperation network analysis, social network analysis methods. The most commonly used keywords were "higher education, education, university, restructuring and neoliberalism", the largest clusters defined in the network were "higher education, humanities, education policy", and the smallest cluster was "higher education policy". Among these clusters, the largest cluster is the "higher education" cluster, the average year of the publications cited jointly is 2011, and the newest issues are "humanities and higher education policy". According to the timeline map, there was a focus on the keywords "higher education, curriculum, neoliberalism, China, student, administration". In the early days, the focus was on "higher education, curriculum", then "higher education policy, innovation, management, organizational change, university reform, savings", and after 2020, the keywords "Covid 19, pandemic, distance education, student". The keywords with the most citation explosions were initially "Eurasia", in the middle "management, higher education, student", and after 2020, "student, Covid 19, human". The highest explosion of citations occurred from the word "Eurasia" between 2005 and 2009.