Abstract
The pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus has resulted in inevitable radical changes across almost all areas of daily life, with the pandemic having revealed perhaps the greatest crisis humanity has faced in modern history. This study aims to provide thematic and methodological recommendations for future sustainable research programs through a bibliometric analysis of publications focused on management, leadership, and administration related to COVID-19. The data for the study were obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) bibliographic database and then analyzed according to thematic content analysis and bibliometric methodology. The study’s units of analysis include countries, journals, keywords, research models, sample/study group, and time to publication. VOSviewer software and visualization maps were used to report the findings obtained from the analyzed data. When the study’s results are evaluated regarding the number of related publications and total citations, it can be revealed that Anglo-American-, Chinese-, and European-centered dominance continues in COVID-19-related studies. The vast majority of publications on this subject area are concentrated in the field of health. In addition, the study’s findings revealed that the examined articles were generally published in journals considered as prestigious, have high impact factors, are published in the English language, and with articles published in a short time after a much-reduced editorial/review and publishing process. Unlike previous bibliometric reviews, this research comprehensively analyzed the management-, leadership-, and administration-oriented publications related to COVID-19 with a holistic approach, providing essential findings and recommendations for future sustainable thematic research opportunities.
Highlights
These results show a clear need for scientific studies focused on management, leadership, and administration related to COVID-19 that present perspectives from countries other than these top three
The journals in which the most articles were published were International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (f = 7), Revista de Administracao Publica (f = 5), International Journal of Public Leadership (f = 5), The Lancet Respiratory Medicine (f = 4), and the Journal of Risk and Financial Management (f = 4). These results reveal that the most-cited articles on management, leadership, and administration related to COVID-19 are distributed between journals from numerous fields of study
The number of articles that focused on the psychological issues experienced by doctors and healthcare professionals in their fight against COVID-19 was seen to increase significantly [82,83]. These findings show that occupational groups other than healthcare workers were generally neglected in studies that focused on management, leadership, and administration related to COVID-19
Summary
Throughout human history, various diseases and epidemics such as the Spanish flu, Asian flu, Hong Kong flu, HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola, and swine flu have emerged in specific periods, and these epidemics have each profoundly impacted humanity both psychologically and socioeconomically, and especially within the healthcare sector. In today’s world, humanity faces a new type of coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection [1,2]. After its first recorded appearance in Wuhan, China, the COVID-19 virus, which spread rapidly in just a short timeframe, was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. The new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused significant
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