TRENDS IN HRM

RESEARCH
A CO-OCCURRENCE ANALYSIS OF TOP HRM JOURNALS

By

Asha Desai and Mallikarjun Dora

Vikram Sarabhai Library, IIM Ahmedabad
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Deloitte 2016 GHC trend

 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Objective

To study research trend in the field of HRM using co-

occurrence analysis of the research articles published in
the top HR related journals during last 12 year i.e. 2005-
2016
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Co-occurrence Analysis
Co-occurrence matrices, such as co-citation, co-word,
and co-link matrices, provide us with useful data for
mapping and understanding the structures in the
underlying document sets.
Co- occurrence analysis is similar to co-word analysis
where the number of co-occurrence of two keywords is
the number of publication where both the keyword
appears together.
The co-word analysis has the potential of effectively
revealing the patterns and trends in a specific discipline.
(Ding et al. 2001).
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Data and Methodology

Journal Selection: Selected top 10 journals from Google Scholar
Metrics
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Methodology
A Co-occurrence analysis was used to perform the study.

Over all trend for the period 2005-2016

Study divided into three time span; i.e. 2005-2008, 2009-2012 and
2013-2016 to study the short term change in the trend of research
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Data Sources and tools

The records for the research articles were derived from the Web of
Science, Social Science Citation Index

Year wise data was downloaded for each journal

Document type Article was selected to increase the validity and

reliability of the study, as it is a certified knowledge generated by
scientific journals that apply a critical review process (Ramos-Rodriguez
and Ruiz-Navarro, 2004).

Data curation work and further analysis

To provide a systematic review of the HRM literature, we employ the

VOSviewer science mapping framework.

 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Journals and articles, 2005-16

Sr. No. Publication Articles
1 Journal of Management 494
2 Academy of Management Journal 716
3 Organization Science 806
4 Journal of Management Studies 547
5 Academy of Management Review 319
6 International Journal of Project Management 794
7 The Leadership Quarterly 637
8 Journal of Organizational Behavior 609
9 Journal of Vocational Behavior 945
10 Organization Studies 711
Total 6577
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Year wise total Publication

 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Over all research trend 2005-2016

Period 2005 - 2016
Highly used terms during the period

16,661
Total Keywords (6577)

Minimum co-
occurrence 20

Keywords meets
threshold 609
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

2005-2016 with four main clusters

 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Density Visualization
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Research trend 2005-2008

Highly used terms during the period
Period 2005-2008

5260
(1630
Total Keywords )

Minimum co-
occurrence 20
Keywords
meets
threshold 131
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

2005-08
NetworkandDenstiyVsiualization
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Research trend 2009-12

Highly used terms during the period
Period 2009-2012

8386
Total (239
Keywords 7)

Minimum co-
occurrence 20
Keywords
meets
threshold 208
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

2009-12
Network and Density Visualization
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Research trend 2013-16

Highly used terms during the period

Period 2013-2016

Total 9785
Keywords (2550)

Minimum co-
occurrence 20

Keywords
meets
threshold 255
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

2013-16
Network and Density Visualization
ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali
 ETBL 2016, ISB Mohali

Emerging & Decreasing trends