Bibliometric analysis of workplace bullying

This article presents a bibliometric analysis on workplace bullying which have been analysed using the VOSviewer 1.6.15 to evaluate the global research trends, specifically the publication growth, publication outputs by countries, topics of interest, and co-occurrences of author keywords. Approximately 1,828 articles published between 1995 to 2020 were retrieved from the Scopus database. The findings have shown a growing trend in terms of publication outputs. Most of the publications were by the researchers from the United States followed by Australia and the United Kingdom. India was the only Asian country listed which implies a scarcity of research on workplace bullying by Asian background researchers. The keyword ‘bullying’ has the highest occurrence in the publications followed by ‘workplace bullying’. A closer look at the co-occurrences of author keywords revealed that ‘workplace bullying’ has 582 links whereby, the highest total link strength was with the ‘psychology’ keyword. This corroborates the arguments of past studies that workplace bullying could affect a person’s psychological well-being. It can be concluded that the results from the analysis could be used by future researchers to explore under research areas related to workplace bullying.