Prospects for ChatGPT application in higher education: a scoping review of international research

Introduction. The arrival of advanced Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT) in late 2022 resulted in a wide spread of the technology, capable of generating texts of any genres, complexity, and styles. Written communication embraces all spheres of human educational and professional activities that caused a lightning speed at which the technology was introduced into education, science, journalism, mass communication, medicine, etc. The academic community is vigorously discussing the plausible consequences and potential of ChatGPT for various domains, especially education, medicine, and science at large. The review seeks to analyze international publications on ChatGPT's impact and potential in higher education and to identify the key lines of research.