Research Domain Of Innovative Work Behaviour: A Bibliometric Analysis Of Fifteen Years Research(2005-2020)

Abstract

This study has designed to give an overview of all the research work done on innovative work behavior. The bibliometric analysis has been conducted to understand the knowledge domain of Innovative work behaviour. The Web of Science (WoS) was searched with "innovative Work Behaviour*” OR "innovative Work Behavior* "using wild card character to know all related terms. The word spelling of behavior had American and British spelling, therefore both terms were searched with the option of “OR” to have maximum publications in WoS The search was done with topics, ranging from 2005 till 2020 customizing the years resulted in 209 publications. The articles with the English language were included resulting in final 208 documents for analysis, only one publication in the Dutch language was excluded. The data was retrieved and exported on 20 May 2020. The findings of the study suggests that the sports sciences, health care science services, and Anthropology are quite less explored and immature research areas in the IWB domain. Innovation is needed in these sectors. Whereas, yearly research data indicates that the research in this field so far shows the IWB got
the researchers' attention and realization of its importance in the second decade of the 21st century. And with time the yearly graph of published papers on IWB kept increasing.