Human capital has become a fundamental concept in explaining economic development, organizational competitiveness, innovation capability, and sustainable growth. However, the evolution of research themes, intellectual structures, and emerging directions within human capital studies remains fragmented across different disciplines. This study aims to examine the development and research landscape of human capital through a bibliometric analysis approach. Data were collected from the Scopus database using relevant search terms related to human capital, and the retrieved publications were analyzed using bibliometric techniques, including performance analysis, citation analysis, co-authorship analysis, keyword co-occurrence analysis, and thematic evolution mapping. The findings reveal that human capital research has experienced significant growth and has developed into a multidisciplinary field involving economics, management, entrepreneurship, education, innovation, and sustainability. The citation analysis identifies influential studies focusing on entrepreneurship, psychological capital, strategic management, and sustainable competitive advantage, while the keyword analysis demonstrates a transition from traditional themes such as education, employment, and productivity toward emerging themes including innovation, intellectual capital, social capital, and sustainable development. Furthermore, collaboration analysis highlights the dominant contribution of institutions and countries from North America, Europe, and Asia in shaping global human capital research. This study contributes to the literature by providing a comprehensive understanding of the intellectual evolution of human capital research and identifying future research opportunities related to digital capabilities, green human capital, and adaptive workforce development.
Loso Judijanto, Paramita Andiani, Ilham Akbar Bunyamin· West Science Journal Economi...· 0 citations
With the rise of importance of digital platform use, social media interaction and online consumer activities in decision-making and brand perception processes, Electronic Word-of-Mouth (e-WOM) becomes one of the active fields for scholarly investigations. In order to study the intellectual structure, research development and trends in e-WOM literature, the present study used a bibliometric analysis method. The data was gathered from academic database entries of scientific publications and were analyzed using bibliometric methods, such as citation analysis, co-authorship analysis, keyword co-occurrence analysis, thematic mapping and trends analysis. It was found out that the research on e-WOM was gradually shifting from the issues of consumer motivation, online reviews, and credibility of information towards more general issues like social media, user generated content, purchase intention, brand image and digital consumer behavior. Citation analysis allows identifying fundamental research papers that shaped this field to a great extent, especially in terms of e-WOM adoption, credibility and consumer involvement in it. The cooperation analysis shows that despite the global development of e-WOM research, the fragmentation of authorship, institutionality and inter-country collaboration still exists. Additionally, the thematic evolution proves that modern researches in the area of e-WOM is gradually shifting towards the issues of digital platforms, social media marketing, sentiment analysis and data-driven consumer insights. The present study provides a comprehensive look into the evolution and knowledge base of e-WOM research and defines the possible directions of future research related to artificial intelligence, influencer communication, recommendation algorithms and digital trust.
Loso Judijanto, S. Sari, Tina Isnaeni· West Science Journal Economi...· 0 citations
