Volume 14, Issue 2
1.3 Malik Firoz Khan Noon Business School, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
2.4 Department of Information Management, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Pakistan
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Ali Ghulam,Ahmed Shamshad,Mubushar Muhammad,et al.Global Research on Ethical Leadership: A Bibliometric Investigation and Knowledge Mapping[J].Journal of Chinese Human Resources Management,2023,14(02):51-65.
Ali Ghulam,Ahmed Shamshad,Mubushar Muhammad,et al.Global Research on Ethical Leadership: A Bibliometric Investigation and Knowledge Mapping[J].Journal of Chinese Human Resources Management,2023,14(02):51-65. DOI： 10.47297/wspchrmWSP2040-800504.20231402.
The aim of this study is to investigate the publishing and trends of citation on moral and ethical leadership in the past four decades (1979-2022). Moreover
this bibliometric study examines the top authors
countries
organizations
journals
nature of collaboration
and highly cited articles. Bibliometric analysis techniques has been employed to extract data from the Web of Science (WoS) database. A wide-ranging search strategy was developed to extract more relevant data from this source. Finally
2232 research records were selected. For data analysis and bibliometric indicator classification
the study utilized the following software packages: MS Excel
VOSviewer
Biblioshiny
and BibExcel. The study found that a total of 2290 items were published in Web of Science from which 2232 were shortlisted after screening during this period. The largest number of studies were published in the year of 2022 and USA was found the most productive country with most productive organizations
authors
and author collaborations. T
he most productive authors were Trevino LK
Brown ME and Walumbwa FO
and most productive organizations were Wuhan University
Erasmus University
and Michigan State University.
Journal of Business Ethics
is the top rated journal in the domain of ethical leadership. Single-author was the prevailing authorship pattern
followed by the two-author pattern. The top three collaborating countries are USA
China
and Pakistan. The analysis of keywords reflected that the published literature focused on ethical leadership.
Moral leadershipEthics.
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