Trends, Collaborations and Perspectives in the Study of Organizational Climate and Job Satisfaction: A Bibliometric and Scientometric Analysis

Ramón Rubio (), Luis Araya-Castillo, Hugo Moraga-Flores and María Francisca Ortega Frei
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Ramón Rubio: Doctorando en Derecho y administración de empresas, Universidad de Lleida, 25003 Lleida, Spain
Luis Araya-Castillo: School of Business, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Las Condes 7550000, Chile
Hugo Moraga-Flores: Departamento de Contabilidad y Auditoría, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile
María Francisca Ortega Frei: Academic Vice-Rectory, Universidad Miguel de Cervantes, Santiago 8320000, Chile

Administrative Sciences, 2025, vol. 15, issue 10, 1-19

Abstract: Organizational climate (OC) and job satisfaction (JS) are constructs that have been studied for more than five decades. However, the results to date are not sufficient to generalize conclusions across cultures, countries and sectors. To contribute to the development of theory and practice, this study analyzes publication trends through a bibliographic review of publications indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database between 1975 and 2023, using bibliometric and scientometric techniques. This review synthesizes the accumulated knowledge and reveals significant gaps that need to be addressed, highlighting the weak articulation of research in general; the low scientific production in regions such as India, Southeast Asia, Latin America; the overrepresentation of the health sector in the specialized literature. These findings seek to motivate researchers to fill gaps in scientific production and help managers and administrators to strengthen practices that improve the environmental conditions of workers. The limitations of this study are related to the characteristics of quantitative bibliographic studies and the inclusion of only two constructs related to people’s well-being at work, which suggests that future research could incorporate other variables such as emotional intelligence, leadership or organizational citizenship behavior.

Keywords: organizational climate; job satisfaction; scientometrics; bibliometrics; WOS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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