Published Online:January 2026
Product Name:The IUP Journal of Management Research
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJMR020126
DOI:10.71329/IUPJMR/2026.25.1.27-49
Author Name:Anjali Nath* and Rekha Dhingra
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Subject/Domain:Management
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Pages:27-49
This paper performs a bibliometric analysis of the literature on stress and coping. The Scopus database was used to retrieve the most influential publications. Title, authors, year of publication, article type, journal, nation, institution, number of citations, and citation density were recorded for each paper. Further, VOS viewer was used for network mapping. According to the findings, total citations of the top 50 articles ranged from 40 to 287, published during the period 1985 to 2020. The highly cited article with 287 citations was published in the journal Leisure Sciences in the year 2000. Further, the US was the top contributing country with 22 publications, and Iwasaki was the most prolific author with the highest number of citations (n = 446). The most frequently referenced articles on stress and coping shed light on the field’s classic articles and lay the groundwork for future research.
A thorough increase in the studies on occupational stress has led several writers to highlight the challenges this field faces. There are numerous ways to assess a scientific paper’s importance. A citation is a way for the author of an article to acknowledge that it references a prior work (Huo et al., 2015). Citation analysis is a popular tool for assessing an article’s academic value (Garfield, 1972; Gisvold, 1999).