Research on Participative Leadership: a Bibliometric Analysis Between 1992 and 2024

This bibliometric analysis analyzes the past 32 years of research on participative leadership. The bibliometric analysis starts with an “introduction” section, where the 10 most global cited articles on participative leadership are mentioned, indicating the names of the authors, the year of publication, the journal name, and the topic of each article in a separate paragraph. The following part “method”, depicts the main findings of the bibliometric analysis such as the number of documents and sources, the annual growth rate of research on participative leadership, the document average age, average citations per document, the number of authors, and the percentage of international co-authorships. The following “findings” section indicates annual scientific production on participative leadership, average citations per article and per year, most relevant journals, most relevant authors, most relevant universities, countries’ scientific production, and most frequent words. The last part “discussion and conclusion” summarizes the findings of the bibliometric analysis, indicates the limitations of the study and ends with recommendations for further studies.