Abstract
To verify bibliometric indicators of the scientific production available in online journals that approach workplace bullying and nursing. A bibliometric study making use of Bradford's law, Zipf's law, and textual statistics was carried out with publications in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, made available in national and international databases, from 2000 to 2016. The sample was made up of 111 publications. The main authors had connections with 91 institutions distributed in 24 countries. The United States, Brazil, and Australia were the countries with the most publications. The populations of the studies were made up of nursing professionals and students, and the hospital environment was the most studied setting. The journals with a higher number of publications have international scientific influence. The terms that presented greater semantic power and high frequency in the abstracts were: bullying; assédio moral; and acoso laboral. Indicators showed that workplace bullying occurs in the nursing work environments of several countries, and the number of publications on this theme has tended to increase. Diversifying methods and study settings is important to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and fight against this violence.
Highlights
Workplace bullying, in spite of being an old phenomenon in the world of work, has been studied in a systemized way since the 1980s
The results showed a significant dispersion of the 111 publications, since the workplace bullying theme was published in 63 different journals
Bibliometric indicators show that the scientific production available in online journals on workplace bullying and nursing is in development in national and international scope, with a trend towards growth
Summary
In spite of being an old phenomenon in the world of work, has been studied in a systemized way since the 1980s. “Mobbing” was the term chosen to refer to a social interaction in which an individual is almost daily bullied by one or more people for several months, which may lead to psychological and psychosomatic disorders in the victim[1]. In spite of the need for a careful evaluation for each situation, workplace bullying is, in general, a reflection of the work organization process, with the culture of intolerance as its development field[3]. The increase in the incidence of workplace bullying is related to informal organizational alliances that support and protect offenders, as well as to the poor use of organizational processes and procedures. The increase in workplace bullying among people at the same hierarchic level leads to greater incidences of leaving the profession[4]
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