A bibliometric deep-dive: uncovering key trends, emerging innovations, and future pathways in sustainable employability research from 2014 to 2024

Sustainable employability refers to an individual’s ability to work and maintain employment over a long-term period. Despite significant progress in current research on sustainable employability, improvements are needed in areas such as consistency in definition, research on specific populations, industry-specific challenges, and methodological limitations. The current bibliometric analysis aims to address these areas by systematically studying published articles on sustainable employability from 2014 to 2024. A total of 170 articles on sustainable employability were retrieved from January 2014 to January 2024 using the Web of Science database. Various bibliometric information was collected, including the number of publications, keywords, countries of origin, journal names, research hotspots, national cooperation, and journal citation data. The Netherlands published the highest number of papers on sustainable employability. Additionally, sustainable employability has remained a research hotspot over the past decade. The complexity and multidimensionality of this field highlights the increasing focus on employees’ psychological characteristics, work environment, and health management, emphasizing the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research.