Advanced Research in Economics and Business Strategy Journal
Volume 7, Numéro 1, Pages 71-91
2026-06-30

Intellectual Landscape Of Digital Human Resource Management Research: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis

Authors : Lama Padam Bahadur . Kharel Shreekrishna .

Abstract

Digital human resource management embraces digital systems to boost effective performance as a strategic path to enhance efficiency. This research aims to analyse the trend of scientific publication, its direction, and the future path of digital human resource management to assess the gravity of the research. The bibliometric analysis and VOS viewer analyzed the Scopus data. A total of 327 Scopus data, including the research articles published in the English language, which covers the study period from 2010 to 2024. This research analyzed annual scientific production, average citations, three-field plots, most relevant sources, core sources by Bradford’s Law, most relevant authors, most globally cited documents, most locally cited documents, most relevant affiliations, sources’ local impact by H index, countries’ scientific production, trend topics, most frequent words, co-occurrence network, bibliographic coupling of authors, and bibliographic coupling of the country. The findings of the study reveal a rising trend of the study theme, digital human resource management, globally adopting the keywords human resource management” and “digital transformation.” The findings of this research offer evidence of growing interest of research scholars, which provides a path for future study, and practitioners can adopt a digitalization system in human resource management.

Keywords

Bibliometric Analysis ; Digital HRM ; Digital Transformation ; VOS Viewer