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. 2022 Sep 21;36:109. doi: 10.47176/mjiri.36.109

Table 1. Studies included in the qualitative synthesis .

Row Author & Year Country Type of Study Scope of Study Aim
1 Aydinli and Mathews, 2020 (20) Turkey Original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To investigate the ways of “internationalization” in Turkish universities and how a country’s condition of status (in)consistency may be linked to its internationalization practices
2 Bengoetxea and Buela-Casal, 2013 (21) Bulgaria & Spain Conceptual modelling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To provide a new user-driven tool for higher education institutions ranking
3 Chin and Ching, 2009 (22) Taiwan Original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To develop a set of performance indicators for internationalization
4 Dabija, Postelnicu et al., 2014 (23) Romania Conceptual modelling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To develop a methodology for assessing the degree of internationalization of academic study programs
5 De Wit, 2020 (24) England Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To analyze the future of university internationalization in the changing global economic, ecological, and political context
6 Erden, 2018 (25) Northern Cyprus Original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To identify students' intercultural perceptions in African universities
7 Gao, 2018 (7) Australia Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To develop an indicator framework for measuring university internationalization
8 Ishikawa, 2012 (26) Japan Review Identifying internationalization indicators and features To analyzes the emergence of dominant models in higher education in non-Western and non-English language universities
9 Ivančević and Luković, 2018 (27) Serbia Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To provide a set of indicators for university ranking
10 Kireçci, Bacanlı et al., 2016 (9) Turkey Original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To test the validity and reliability of the Internationalization Index of Higher Education in Turkey
11 Knight, 2015 (28) Canada Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To examine key characteristics of three generic models of international universities
12 Lakshmi and Ramachandran, 2018 (29) India Original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To examine the learning and social difficulty issues of the international students
13 Lee and Kuzhabekova, 2018 (30) Kazakhstan Original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To examine faculty mobility in a reverse direction: from the core to Kazakhstan
14 Marjanovic and Pavlovic, 2018 (31) Croatia Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To provide student’s decision-making process model on a globalized higher education market
15 Mizintseva, Komarova et al., 2016 (32) Russia Review Identifying internationalization indicators and features To assess the major aspects of improvement of the student's satisfaction with the educational process in the higher education institutions
16 Nicholls, 2018 (33) USA original study Identifying internationalization indicators and features To explore what factors influence international students’ choices of where to study
17 Rosyidah, 2020 (34) Indonesia Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To elaborate on the university’s promotion strategies to building international trust
18 Sharipov, 2020 (35) Uzbekistan Conceptual modeling Identifying internationalization indicators and features To investigates the concept of higher education internationalization
19 Chang and Lin, 2018 (8) Taiwan Original study Internationalization assessment To examine the perceptions of students and faculty regarding implementing internationalization in universities
20 Horn, Hendel et al, 2007 (36) USA Conceptual modeling Internationalization assessment To develop an empirical approach to evaluating the international dimension of research universities in the United States
21 Krechetnikov and Pestereva, 2017 (37) Russia Review Internationalization assessment To examine international aspects of the development of the present-day national education systems in two countries of the Asia-Pacific region: Japan and the Republic of Korea
22 Tan and Goh, 2014 (38) Malaysia Original study Internationalization assessment To examine the responses of a Malaysian public university to the impact of globalization
23 Uralov, 2020 (39) Uzbekistan Review Internationalization assessment To study the peculiarities of internationalization of higher education in the Republic of Uzbekistan
24 Vyas, 2018 (40) Hong Kong Review Internationalization assessment To investigate the development of higher education internationalization in Hong Kong in the recent two decades
25 Douglass, 2014 (41) USA Conceptual modeling Examining indicators of leading universities To provide a model for flagship universities
26 Liu, Moshi et al., 2019 (42) China Conceptual modeling Examining indicators of leading universities To analyze the sustainability indicators of universities included as newly formed world-class universities (NFWCUs) in the top 100 from 2010 and 2018
27 Shehatta and Mahmood, 2016 (43) Hungary Conceptual modeling Examining indicators of leading universities To identify the key features of world-class universities
28 Sitnicki, 2018 (44) Ukraine Review Examining indicators of leading universities To identify the main characteristics of 25 world-class research universities and propose strategic directions for the development of research universities in the European Union
29 Avralev and Efimova, 2014 (45) Russia Review Analyzing indicators of international ranking To improve the competitiveness of universities
30 Buela-Casal, Gutiérrez-Martínez et al., 2007 (46) Spain Review Analyzing indicators of international ranking To compare different international rankings of universities in order to explore academic indicators to be reliably used in cross-national university comparisons
31 De Filippo, Casani et al., 2012 (47) Spain Review Analyzing indicators of international ranking To examine universities' position in international ranking and strategies to gain greater international visibility
32 Dembereldorj, 2018 (48) Mongolia Review Analyzing indicators of international ranking To examine the impact of higher education rankings on the institutions' competencies
33 Safon, 2013 (12) Hungary Conceptual modeling Analyzing indicators of international ranking To investigate the existence of hidden education and research factors or profiles in the two most influential global university rankings (ARWU and THE)
34 Shakirova and Smolnikova, 2017 (49) Russia Original study Analyzing indicators of international ranking To study the relationship between the level of internationalization of universities and their position in authoritative world rankings
35 Shypulina, Gryshchenko et al., 2016 (50) Ukraine Review Analyzing indicators of international ranking To explore the importance of universities' participation in international ranking
36 Taylor, Perakakis et al., 2014 (13) Greece & Spain & USA Review Analyzing indicators of international ranking To perform a critical and comparative analysis of 6 of the most popular global university ranking systems