The traditional orientation of higher education is the development of individual skills and competencies, while today's society demands students able to work in teams based on collective skills based on collaboration. The Transactive Memory System (TMS, for its acronym in English) is a concept that allows you to understand the cognitive functioning of individuals when working in teams. The objective of this work is to describe the status of research on TMS and unveil the implications of this construct for higher education, based on a bibliometric analysis of the indexed publications in the SCOPUS database until 2018. The results show that, although there are implications that complement the TMS construct with collaborative learning, this relationship goes unnoticed, being the areas of Business, Administration and Computer Science in which the subject is most public while in a tiny percentage this construct is resumed by educational research