Dataset and supplementary materials for: Gamification in Higher Education across Asia and the Middle East — A Systematic Review, Bibliometric Analysis, and Meta-Analysis

Screening/coding database (350 included studies), effect-size dataset (23 between-group Hedges' g effects), pooled meta-analytic results, publication-bias and moderator statistics, leave-one-out sensitivity results, draft RoB 2 / ROBINS-I risk-of-bias judgments, draft GRADE summary of findings, full reference list (CSV and BibTeX), Scopus search string with deduplication script, PRISMA 2020 checklist, the review protocol with declared amendments, and all six 300-dpi figures for the systematic review, bibliometric analysis, and meta-analysis of gamification in higher education across Asia and the Middle East (three-source search: OpenAlex, PubMed, Scopus; corpus 2013–2026). All included studies are identified by DOI where one exists (346/350). Effect sizes are traceable to source publications via data/effect_table.csv.