A Bibliometric Analysis of the Intellectual Landscape of Mobile Technology and Higher Education Research

Abstract

Technology has become a crucial part of higher education. Higher education institutions have adapted to embrace technology-enabled classroom practices to meet the rising expectations of a varied student population while continually enhancing their learning experience. Mobile technology in higher education, in particular, has the opportunity to provide access to or improve education at a low cost with a less demanding infrastructure configuration. In the current study, the researchers aimed to better understand the intellectual landscape of mobile technology and higher education through bibliometric analysis of research articles published in the Scopus database. This research included a study of 277 papers published in Scopus-indexed peer-reviewed journals between 2006 and 2023. The citation network, co-citation analysis, and publication patterns were examined to discover influential work in this domain. Bibliometric analysis was used to identify the most notable journals, authors, nations, articles, and topics, followed by thoroughly examining the content of 277 papers in the identified clusters. The four major themes enumerated are—Rise of mobile learning, E-learning—the blended and collaborative way, Mobile Technologies in higher education, and Student Engagement in the times of mobile learning. The paper provides interesting insights into these emerging themes, the study will assist regulators, policymakers, and academic scholars in understanding the fundamentals of mobile technology and higher education and identifying pertinent topics for further research.