Research Trends in Career Success: A Bibliometric Review

Roberto Pico-Saltos, Paúl Carrión-Mero, Néstor Montalván-Burbano, Javier Garzás and Andrés Redchuk
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Roberto Pico-Saltos: Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28933 Madrid, Spain
Paúl Carrión-Mero: Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos Aplicados a las Ciencias de la Tierra (CIPAT), ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil 9015863, Ecuador
Javier Garzás: Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28933 Madrid, Spain
Andrés Redchuk: Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28933 Madrid, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-24

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of academic research on professional success, using the bibliometric analysis to understand the evolution of this field between the years 1990 and 2020. The information was obtained from the publications indexed in the Scopus database, under a rigorous bibliometric process that comprises five parts: (i) criteria search of the field, (ii) selection of database and documents, (iii) inclusion and selection criteria, (iv) software and data selection, and (v) analysis and results. The results show professional success as a scientific discipline in full exponential growth, which allows us to consider the main contributions of authors, institutions, and international contributions, as well as to consider the main themes that have shaped the intellectual structure of the subject through their visualization using bibliometric maps of co-citation and co-occurrence, which combined showed eight main lines of research. The results obtained allowed us to identify patterns of convergence and divergence in various topics, which allows obtaining current and diverse information on the state of the research field’s art.

Keywords: professional success; objective success factors; subjective success factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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