Information literacy in higher education and academic research has proliferated. From 1991 to 2020, a total of 9,400 research publications on information literacy and higher education were produced steadily, as indexed in Web of Science (WoS) on 10 June 2021. This study shows the scientometric visualisation of information literacy and research in higher education using quantifiable characteristics from the publication’s dataset. The results disclose that the publication growth rate (16.84%) is highly significant for a synergistic response. Due to the productivity of authors, total of 470 papers were produced on an average per year from 1991 to 2020. Several academic publishers have allowed immediate access to their preprints and also allowed open access. The research output on Information Literacy has been published in more than 1256 journals. The results shows that most of the publications were in the domain of educational research and Library and Information Science. However, closely associated terms are health literacy, education, information literacy, higher education, and so on. Academic pivots are mainly located in Germany, USA, Australia, India, and Canada. The University of California, USA; The State University System of Florida, USA; and The University of London, UK are outstanding productive institutions. The G20 countries together produced 90% of the world’s research output on information literacy and higher education and also identified encouraging trends in collaborative research in several countries. Thus, the CI (3.757), DC (0.862), and CC (0.584) values are very substantial. Lastly, the geographic range of collaborating authors thereby visualized their linkages through co-occurrences. It analysed the influence of publications to show the most dominant contributions of global research on information literacy and higher education.

高等教育和学术研究中的信息素养激增。从 1991 年到 2020 年，在 2021 年 6 月 10 日 Web of Science (WoS) 中，共有 9,400 篇关于信息素养和高等教育的研究出版物稳步产生。本研究显示了信息素养和高等教育研究的科学计量可视化，使用出版物数据集中的可量化特征。结果显示，发表增长率（16.84%）对于协同反应非常显着。由于作者的生产力，从 1991 年到 2020 年，平均每年发表 470 篇论文。一些学术出版商允许立即访问他们的预印本，也允许开放访问。信息素养的研究成果已在超过 1256 种期刊上发表。结果表明，大部分出版物属于教育研究和图书馆与信息科学领域。然而，密切相关的术语是健康素养、教育、信息素养、高等教育等。学术枢纽主要位于德国、美国、澳大利亚、印度和加拿大。美国加州大学；美国佛罗里达州立大学系统；和英国伦敦大学是杰出的生产机构。G20 国家共同产生了全球 90% 的信息素养和高等教育研究成果，并确定了几个国家合作研究的令人鼓舞的趋势。因此，CI (3.757)、DC (0.862) 和 CC (0.584) 值非常可观。最后，因此，合作作者的地理范围通过共现可视化了他们的联系。它分析了出版物的影响，以显示全球研究对信息素养和高等教育的最主要贡献。