Bullying a Blazing Inferno - A Bibliometric Analysis of Its Perpetuation & Percolation

Abstract

Workplace bullying has been an achilles' heel and a topic of international deliberation for organizations globally.
A thorough study encompassing various attributes of bullying at workplace and its impact on both organization and the workforce has attained significant traction globally in last two decades and has catapulted even more, recently.
The intended aim of this investigation is to undertake a bibliometric review of previous studies carried out between the time range 2000-2023, on the theme “Workplace bullying”. It examines the evolution in publication trend over the years; the global perpetuation of study by mapping out countries contributing to the study; influential authors & journals; research collaboration & intercountry liaison and accordingly recommend future work /scope based on comprehensive scouting of research bibliometrically.
For our bibliometric analysis, the Boolean search of Scopus for the years ranging between 2000 to 2023 were carried out which retrieved 916 documents. The retrieved documents were subjected to rigorous screening, ultimately narrowing down to 697 articles for further analysis. Graphical correlations and their link strengths were displayed using VOSviewer programme and data trends along with drilled down insights were plotted leveraging Power BI and MS excel tools.
The top authors, journals & publications; top countries, Co-authorship, Citations and strength of associations between authors & countries were identified using bibliometric techniques succeeded by an in-depth bibliographic-network-based-content-analysis.
This analysis indicated that research on the thread was carried out at the global level with both developed & developing nations contributing substantially.