loneliness in the workplace; knowledge mapping

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 HRM and Business, faculty of Management, Kharazmi university, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Human Resource Management, Management Faculty, Kharazmi University

3 Department of Human resource Management, Faculty of Management, Kharazmi University, Tehran. Iran

Abstract

Today, especially in the Corona and Post-Coronavirus era, research on "loneliness in the workplace" has received more attention than ever before. The main goal of this research is to investigate the current state of knowledge related to loneliness in the workplace in scientific publications. To achieve this goal, the trend of researches conducted from 1966 to 2022 was analyzed using bibliometric analysis and through VOSviewer software. A total of 2240 documents were retrieved from the Web of Science database and the findings showed that the highest percentage of studies on loneliness in the workplace were conducted in 2021. United States, China and England have contributed the most in studies and majority of studies are in the field of management and communication sciences. Williams, KD has the most references among the authors and the keywords of alienation, ostracism and in recent studies the keywords of loneliness have appeared in the workplace. The results in this research have opened a new vision to researchers who are interested in this field, helped to better understand this phenomenon, and provided suggestions for future research.

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