Literary Landscapes of “Job Crafting” and “Career Crafting”: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Individuals frequently need to be proactive to navigate their career development journeys successfully. The extent to which an individual
is vocationally sound has significant implications for their behaviors and outcomes in career plus work-related settings. Keeping this in
view, the purpose of this study was to analyze the scholarly literature to identify research trends and knowledge structure on crafting. This
study employed a bibliometric analysis technique to determine the gap underscoring the need for a deeper exploration of these concepts to
bridge the area of organizational behavior, work-related, and vocational development. A dataset of 1,474 publications on “Job Crafting” and 31 publications on “Career Crafting” was extracted from the SCOPUS database till January 31, 2025. The bibliometric visualization tools and VOSviewer software were used to examine this dataset for citation count, authors and their affiliations, publication numbers, countries, sources/journals, and keyword patterns to understand the current state of knowledge on crafting. Findings of this bibliometric analysis showed that the year 2024 was, research-wise, the most productive year with 314 articles produced in the field. The most research productive countries in crafting are China, the Netherlands, and the United States. Further, the highest number of publications on the subject of crafting were published in the domain of business, management, and accounting. This study builds on these results to provide the first bibliometric review on job and career crafting.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Funding

The research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Data Fabrication/Falsification Statement

The author(s) declare that no data have been fabricated, falsified, or manipulated in this study.

Participant Consent

This study is based on secondary data obtained from publicly available sources and did not involve any human participants. Therefore, no participant consent was required, and all data were used in accordance with ethical standards for secondary data research.

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