Job Satisfaction Among Health-Care Practitioners: A Bibliometric Analysis

The study aims to throw light on job satisfaction among health-care practitioners based on the metadata of published literature from Scopus database with the help of bibliometric analysis. Metadata of 6,998 publications from the Scopus database were extracted. Bibliometric analysis was done with country-based co-authorship analysis, all keywords-based co-occurrence analysis, sources-based citation analysis, cited authors-based co-citation analysis, and term co-occurrence based on text data. It was found that United States had the highest number of publications at 2,037. The Journal Of Nursing Management had the highest number of publications (332). Term co-occurrence based on text data reveals that job satisfaction, turnover intention, work engagement, compassion fatigue , job stress, organizational commitment, job demand, job performance, workplace violence, job burnout, career satisfaction, safety climate, organizational support, transformational leadership, leadership style, discrimination, workplace bullying, and job strain are the most prominent terms. The paper also highlights the factors affecting job satisfaction of employees in the health-care sector. The paper tries to highlight the publication trends on the job satisfaction among health-care practitioners. Since health care is a primary sector , prosperity of other sectors in the society depends on the job satisfaction level of employees in this sector. • Bibliometric analysis was performed on metadata of 6,998 publications from Scopus. • Factors affecting job satisfaction of health-care practitioners were identified. • Burnout, stress, nurse, job satisfaction, turnover intention, and work engagement evolved as the most used terms in recent years.