An Analysis of Research Published on Organisational Politics in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Perspective

Purpose
This paper aims to analyse the publication structure on the research published on organisational politics in higher education between 2000 to 2025.
Design/ Methodology
Bibliographic data on organisational politics in higher education extracted from Scopus database, and then they were analysing data through VOSviewer software and RStudio.
Findings
This study examines141 papers on organisational politics in higher education published between 2000 to 2025. The research finds the top producing nations, institutions, authors, journals, citations, co-citations, co-authorship and co-occurrence of the organisational politics in higher education. It also includes information on the most referenced publications and published authors. The VOSviewer program and RStudio is also used in the study to visualize the mapping.
Originality/value
The main contribution of the study is that it provides an overview of the trends of organisational politics in higher education, which may help the researcher and practitioners to comprehend the trends and future research directions.

Organisational politics, Higher education, VOS viewer, citation analysis, co-authorship analysis, co-citation, co-occurrence of keywords, RStudio and bibliometric analysis.

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