Library science

Open access journal

Quantum mechanics

Engineering

Pure mathematics

Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)

Diversity (politics)

Field (mathematics)

Scholarly communication

Computer science

Anthropology

Physics

Relevance (law)

Mathematics

Political science

Social capital

Social network analysis

Sociology

Citation

Data science

Artificial intelligence

MEDLINE

Knowledge management

Perspective (graphical)

Bibliographic coupling

Scopus

Bibliometrics

Publishing

Engineering ethics

Social science

Human Resource Development Review

In celebrating HRDR’s 20 years of publication, this study aims to shed light on research trends in the journal and future research needs by examining 10 years of publications from a structural perspective. We used three complementary computational methods to find major research trends and themes including keyword network analysis, topic modeling, and bibliographic coupling. This paper presents the findings on the research themes, structural coherence, and semantic relevance based on clusters formed by normalized distance measures. Connectivity, co-appearances, and citations are important forms of scholarly communication that represent the body of knowledge in the field. Our findings indicate that research topics greatly expanded beyond the early HRD research topics of learning and development to include various topics related to diversity, critical HRD, and equity issues in organizations and society. We also examined the author-institution-keywords affiliation network and the authors-collaboration network to suggest how scholars can collaborate more in the future.

Research Topics and Collaboration in<i>Human Resource Development Review</i>2012–2021: A Bibliometrics Approach

Research Topics and Collaboration inHuman Resource Development Review2012–2021: A Bibliometrics Approach