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REVIEW article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1438715

Research Trends in the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education

Provisionally accepted
Roza S. Akhmadieva Roza S. Akhmadieva 1Nadezhda A. Kalmazova Nadezhda A. Kalmazova 2Tatyana Belova Tatyana Belova 3*Alexey Prokopyev Alexey Prokopyev 4Natalia M. Molodozhnikova Natalia M. Molodozhnikova 5Valentina Y. Spichak Valentina Y. Spichak 5
  • 1 Kazan State Institute of Culture, Kazan, Russia
  • 2 Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • 3 Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, Al'met'yevsk, Russia
  • 4 Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia
  • 5 I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Moscow Oblast, Russia

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    The latest technological advancements have greatly interested researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) in education. In parallel, researchers have expressed concern about using and applying AI in education. However, there is a shortage of research that comprehensively and holistically examines trends in the use of AI in higher education. Hence, this study aimed to comprehensively analyze and assess AI research trends in higher education. In the SCOPUS database, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of 1563 articles on research on AI in education. Our results revealed that the use of AI in education has increased dramatically from 2004 to 2023. In particular, a dramatic increase and peak exist after 2019. We also found limited interaction among scholars studying AI. Furthermore, our findings indicate that most of the most influential institutions are located in developed countries. Moreover, our findings demonstrated that AI research primarily concentrated on comprehending the impact of AI-based instruction, with the majority of these studies taking place in engineering education between 2017 and 2020. We also noticed that research on medical education in higher education occurred between 2015 and 2017. In addition, before 2015, research used AI in medical education as a teaching method to implement problem-based learning in higher education.In recent years, researchers have studied the use of AI in education. Upon this line of research, scholars have conducted review studies to examine the status of using AI in higher education research. However, the existing literature reviews have mainly focused on systematic reviews of AI in the higher education context (Bond, et al.

    Keywords: Higher educaction, bibliometric anal ysis, Research trend, Artifici al Intelligence, AI

    Received: 26 May 2024; Accepted: 07 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Akhmadieva, Kalmazova, Belova, Prokopyev, Molodozhnikova and Spichak. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Tatyana Belova, Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, Al'met'yevsk, Russia

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