Thematic Evolution and Intellectual Structure of Workplace Incivility Research: A Bibliometric Perspective from 2001 to 2024
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Abstract
The researchers (we) found that Workplace incivility has emerged as a critical problem in the organizations and as a research construct in organizational behaviour research domain in recent years. But workplace incivility has low-intensity nature. The past researchers proved that Workplace incivility has significant consequences for employees and organization as well, it may include Job autonomy, Physical pain, Organizational Justice Perception, employee well-being and organizational outcomes etc. There was a rapid growth of research output on workplace incivility in last 2 decades but we (researchers) found that there is a comprehensive understanding of the intellectual structure, and thematic evolution of workplace incivility remains fragmented. To address this research gap, the researchers conducted a bibliometric science mapping analysis of workplace incivility. This research was conducted by using data retrieved from Scopus database.
The researchers used Biblioshiny to conduct the bibliometric analysis (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017). Biblioshiny is the web interface of the bibliometrix R package. The researchers used multiple complementary techniques to complete this research, which included Three-Field Plots, Trend Topic Analysis, Thematic Mapping, and Factorial Analysis. Because these techniques enabled the researchers to do a systematic examination of publication growth, influential documents, conceptual foundations, and evolving research themes in the workplace incivility research domain.