Mapping of Scientific Literatures on Remote Work Research: A Scientometric Evaluation
Keywords:
Scientometric Analysis, Remote Work, VOSviewer, Scientometric Parameters, Bibliographic Coupling, COVID-19Abstract
This paper endeavors to reach out to the publications and explore research movements in remote work for the period 1987–2023 published in scopus-listed journals. The retrieved data (total 447 publications) were investigated through scientometric tools, MS-Excel and VOSviewer software tool. The scholarly literatures were examined to fulfill objectives of this paper such as annual distribution of papers, Distribution of literatures regarding to Subjects, prominent countries, citation analysis, bibliographic coupling of sources etc.
According to scrutiny, the scholarly publications were published in the year 2022. The swift rise in remote work literatures from 2020 onwards due to COVID-19 pandemic situation. Social Sciences has the highest number of publications related to remote work. The largest number of papers with 61.74% published as articles. Followed by conference papers with 21.92%. The most frequent keywords in remote work research output is remote work with 217 papers. The most contributed country is United States accounted for 115 literatures, 39% shares. Brazil has contributed 15 papers, or 5% of the total, which is the lowest in research output. Yang I. and others have received the most citations, with 173. The journals ‘sustainability (switzerland), nature human behavior, journal of business research’ were the highly cited sources, with 178, 173, and 157 citation counts.
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