Personnel Review at age 50: a retrospective using bibliometric analysis
ISSN: 0048-3486
Article publication date: 26 May 2022
Issue publication date: 15 May 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Personnel Review (PR) is a leading human resource management journal. The article endeavors to provide a retrospective of the journal to commemorate the journal's 50th anniversary.
Design/methodology/approach
The article employs a variety of bibliometric analysis techniques such as performance analysis, co-authorship analysis, bibliographic coupling, and negative binomial regression to provide a retrospective of PR.
Findings
The performance analysis suggests that PR has grown steadily in PR's publications and citations. Though most of PR's contributions originate from Europe, a geographical shift toward global contributions has been witnessed in recent years. Besides that, a culture of collaboration among PR authors has manifested and proliferated over time. Though a third of European studies are qualitative and more than 90% of Asian studies are quantitative, PR studies, as a whole, are moving away from conceptual and qualitative to empirical and quantitative research. Next, the bibliographic coupling of the PR corpus indicates five major themes—namely, human resource management policies and practices; personnel competency, experience, and well-being; career management and employee engagement; strategic human resource management; and organizational culture and workplace environment. Finally, the negative binomial regression reveals that article age, abstract and article length and number of keywords and references significantly drive PR citations.
Originality/value
The article represents the inaugural retrospective of PR.
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Acknowledgements
The authors convey their appreciation to the Editors-in-Chief and the two anonymous reviewers for their constructive suggestions to improve this article. The authors also extend their gratitude to Riya Sureka, Research Fellow, Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, for her support in our data collection and analysis. No funding was received for this research.
Citation
Varma, A., Kumar, S., Lim, W.M. and Pandey, N. (2023), "
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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