Quality management application and educational performance in higher education institutions: A bibliometric analysis

Quality management has become inevitable and ubiquitous in higher education, especially given the increasing competition in both industry and professional orientation. To date, there has been no broad consensus about the trends and determinants in this field despite research existing for several decades now. Experts disagree on the use and impact of quality management systems in higher education, and there is a considerable geographical disparity in terms of the progress made in the field. In this article, a bibliometric analysis consisting of data from 966 articles from the Web of Science database (scanned extant literature) was to identify the most pertinent papers, sources, authors, countries, publication dynamics, and themes. It reveals a comprehensive quality management assessment in higher education. It also revealed the most prominent role of service-quality leadership in current research and quality culture, training, performance, and improvement techniques as the areas relevant for future research. Several countries need to refocus their effort on improvement in quality training and the impact of quality management in the higher education context.