Bibliometric Analysis of Gig Economy

Abstract

Technological advances such as smartphones, mobile applications, and online platforms have enabled a new form of economy, known as a gig economy, at a large scale, in which there is a free-market system allowing organizations (job providers) to hire independent contractors (job seeker). Unlike traditional employer and employee relationships, the gig economy creates opportunities for independent workers to seek short-term contract jobs and temporary positions. This article presents a systematic review of the literature associated with a bibliometric analysis of the global perspective of the gig economy. The study aims to present the analysis of published articles that explore the gig economy. Initially, 2297 documents were retrieved by gig economy as a keyword from Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science between 2014 and 2022. After applying certain criteria, only 686 publications were selected for bibliometrics analysis. The selected articles were used to measure bibliometric indicators and evaluate the research work on the gig economy. Bibliometrics an R package for bibliometric and co-citation analysis was used to achieve the results. VOSviewer was also used to analyze the co-occurrence of the keywords. The results highlight the publication trends, top contributing authors and their countries, most cited articles, keywords, and most contributing journals to the research field.

Research mapping of policy network: A bibliometric analysis

“…The bibliometric approach had long been used in information inquiry and reporting across diverse fields, including economics, business (Batmunkh et al, 2022; Giraldo et al, 2022), tourism, and hospitality (Knani et al, 2022; Sánchez et al, 2017; Singh & Bashar, 2023). However, in the field of management and public administration, the approach was confined to certain topics, such as patent policy (Habiburrahman et al, 2022), public sector innovation (Pradana et al, 2022), smart public governance (Vujković et al, 2022), public administration in general (Abdolhamid et al, 2023), and public administration journals (Azizatun et al, 2021; Kumar et al, 2020).…”

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“…Moreover, it should be noted that the Scopus database has already been used for various types of bibliometric research in the area of the gig economy (e.g. Batmunkh et al, 2022;Guduru et al, 2023;Silva, Moreira, 2022). Due to the choice of SLR as a research method, a Q1 research query was constructed to explore the Scopus database (Table 1).…”

Socio‐technical issues in the platform‐mediated gig economy: A systematic literature review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

“…For example, Batmunkh et al (2022) conduct a systematic review to describe "publication trends, top contributing authors and their countries, most cited articles, keywords, and most contributing journals to the research" (p. 1) on the gig economy. Similarly, Gupta and Chauhan (2021) used bibliometrics to illustrate publication rates over time, most frequently used keywords, and most influential authors.…”

“…These reviews may be sorted into three categories: The use of bibliometric methods to map the intellectual structure of the gig economy research domain. For example, Batmunkh et al (2022) conduct a systematic review to describe “publication trends, top contributing authors and their countries, most cited articles, keywords, and most contributing journals to the research” (p. 1) on the gig economy. Similarly, Gupta and Chauhan (2021) used bibliometrics to illustrate publication rates over time, most frequently used keywords, and most influential authors. Assessments of the impacts of the gig economy on human resource management (HRM).…”