RT journal article
T1 Walking Through the Scientific Landscape of Occupational Burnout Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (2000–2025).
A1 El Hichou Ahmed, Chaima
A1 Gil-Monte, Pedro R.
A1 Figueiredo-Ferraz, Hugo
A2 Economía General
K1 occupational burnout
K1 bibliometric analysis
K1 scientific production
K1 co-authorship networks
K1 keyword co-occurrence
K1 psychosocial risks
K1 occupational health psychology
K1 work-related stress
K1 research trends
AB Occupational burnout has become a major topic in occupational health psychology becauseof its implications for employee well-being, mental health, and organizational functioning.Although the scientific literature has grown steadily, the field still requires an integratedpicture of its development, collaboration patterns, and thematic structure. This studyexamined the evolution, collaboration patterns and thematic structure of occupationalburnout research through a bibliometric analysis of publications indexed in the Web ofScience Core Collection between 2000 and 2025. A total of 3227 publications were retrievedusing a topic-based search focused specifically on occupational burnout terminology. Bibliometric analyses used VOSviewer to map and visualize trends in scientific production,co-authorship networks, country/region collaboration, keyword co-occurrence, and journalcitation patterns. The findings indicate an accelerating increase in publication output, from17 publications in 2000 to 454 in 2025. The period 2020–2025 alone accounted for 2142 publications, representing 66.4% of the corpus. Collaboration analyses revealed an increasinglyinternational field involving 122 countries/regions, with the United States occupying ahighly connected position and collaboration clusters emerging in Europe and Asia. Spainalso appeared to connect European and Latin American research communities. Thematicmapping showed that burnout is closely associated with organizational variables, psychological distress, healthcare settings, and measurement-related issues. Overall, occupationalburnout research has become an internationalized and multidisciplinary field, shaped bythe growing relevance of psychosocial risks, mental health, and work-related well-being.
PB MDPI
SN 2673-8392
YR 2026
FD 2026-07-25
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40104
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/40104
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 21-sep-2026