Personalized learning is an up-to-date trend of formal and informal education development. Its main peculiarity is the maximum consideration of the person's educational needs. Nowadays personalized learning involves development of student model based on personal characteristics; customized learning content, as well as intellectual information and communication technologies. These approach is considered as adaptive learning. Research results in the field of personalized and adaptive learning are presented in numerous publications. Thus, it was decided to perform the search in Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection, as well as the electronic libraries of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Association for Computing Machinery. The study consisted of two stages: 1) search by a set of key phrases; 2) search by a custom search query. The results of the analysis of the generated sample by years of publication, countries of origin of authors, number of citations are presented in tables and diagrams. Moreover, the review of some significant publications is given, and main areas of further studies are detected such as, the examining of teachers' experience in the field of use adaptive learning systems.