Applying the Balanced Scorecard in Universities: A Systematic Review

Today, university autonomy is a global trend in higher education governance. University autonomy, especially the application of the balanced scorecard at public universities, is gradually becoming an inevitable trend in the world as well as in Vietnam. The purpose of this study is to systematize previous studies on the application of the balanced scorecard in public universities, make statistics, evaluate according to authors, and identify the most influential research articles in the study. On applying the balanced scorecard in public universities. Research data was collected and analyzed from Google Scholar data on VOSviewer 1.6.19 software with 500 articles for the keyword "applying the balanced scorecard in public universities" filtered in summary form. The results show that studies on the application of the balanced scorecard in public universities over the past 10 years have always been a topic of interest and investigation by researchers. The study also identifies the most influential authors according to the number of articles and citations. The research results have contributed to synthesizing a system of research documents on applying the balanced scorecard in public universities.