Research Trends in Transnational Professional Development Programs: A Bibliometric Analysis
Abstract
As the volume of explorations on transnational professional development increments significantly in the past twenty years, a systematic review of the diverse literature and its development process becomes essential. This study conducted a bibliometric analysis for the knowledge domain of overseas academic programs by using 280 research articles spanning from 2000 to 2021 in the Web of Science (WoS) database. Knowledge maps of transnational professional development research were envisioned by CiteSpace. The research findings show that in the field of educational internationalization research, the number of published articles shows a fluctuated upward trend in terms of temporal distribution since 2000; the first five highly cited countries are the USA, China, UK, Spain, and Turkey; the first five highly cited authors are Miri Yemini, A CendelKaraman, SadhanaManik, Belem Barbosa, and Cheryl J Craig; Abroad, higher educational institutions, experience, China and adjustment are found to be top five research hotspots. These findings provide considerable insights into research trends, topics, journals, authors, and hotspots concerning teachers studying abroad from the diachronic perspective. Perception investigation of the educator transnational experience writing by defining a graphical and visualization study may be advantageous for researchers and educators to follow the advancement concentrating on transnational professional development studies.
