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Human Resource and Talent Management

Human Resource and Talent Management is a research topic within Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the strategic management of talent on a global scale, encompassing topics such as talent identification, succession planning, employee engagement, and the impact of talent management on organizational performance. It delves into the challenges and opportunities faced by multinational enterprises in managing their workforce, and emphasizes the importance of talent management as a source of competitive advantage in today's dynamic business environment.

  • Talent Management
  • Global
  • HR
  • Strategic
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Performance
  • Succession Planning
  • Employee Engagement
  • Multinational Enterprises
  • Competitive Advantage
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+48%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Human Resource and Talent Management

Which countries lead Human Resource and Talent Management research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (637 and 552 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 637 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 552 works
  3. 3 India 518 works
  4. 4 China 392 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 254 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 239 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 172 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 169 works
  9. 9 Philippines 160 works
  10. 10 South Africa 137 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 19.7%Indonesia: 17.1%India: 16.0%China: 12.2%6 others listed: 35.0%20%largest
United States637 · 19.7%Indonesia552 · 17.1%India518 · 16.0%China392 · 12.2%6 others listed1,130 · 35.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Human Resource and Talent Management research?

By volume in 2022-now, Islamic Azad University, Tehran publishes the most Human Resource and Talent Management research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and Tribhuvan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 35 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 26 works
  3. 3 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 20 works
  4. 4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 19 works
  5. 5 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyKenya 18 works
  6. 6 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 18 works
  7. 7 Bandung Institute of TechnologyIndonesia 18 works
  8. 8 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 18 works
  9. 9 Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 18 works
  10. 10 Government of Western AustraliaAustralia 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Human Resource and Talent Management?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Human Resource and Talent Management include David C. Schwebel, David F. Larcker and Arnold B. Bakker.

  1. 1 David C. Schwebel United States 210k citations
  2. 2 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  3. 3 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  4. 4 Milena M Santric-Milicevic Serbia 181k citations
  5. 5 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Human Resource and Talent Management?

The most cited paper in Human Resource and Talent Management is "Writing Integrative Literature Reviews: Guidelines and Examples" (Richard J. Torraco, 2005), with 3,385 citations. Next come "The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions." (2,976) and "Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships in Organizational Life." (2,693).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Writing Integrative Literature Reviews: Guidelines and Examples Richard J. Torraco · Human Resource Development Review 3 Aug 2005 3,385
2 The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Development of Entrepreneurial Intentions. Hao Zhao, Scott E. Seibert, Gerald E. Hills · Journal of Applied Psychology 2005 2,976
3 Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships in Organizational Life. Michael B. Arthur, Kathy E. Kram · Administrative Science Quarterly Sep 1985 2,693
4 Employability: A psycho-social construct, its dimensions, and applications Mel Fugate, Angelo J. Kinicki, Blake E. Ashforth · Journal of Vocational Behavior 19 Feb 2004 2,169
5 Strategic talent management: A review and research agenda David G. Collings, Kamel Mellahi · Human Resource Management Review Open access 3 May 2009 1,821
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Human Resource and Talent Management research done?

The largest centres of Human Resource and Talent Management research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nairobi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 96 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 65 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 61 works
  4. 4 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 60 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 59 works
  6. 6 NairobiKenya 58 works
  7. 7 SurabayaIndonesia 44 works
  8. 8 BangkokThailand 41 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 41 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NairobiKE · 57.8 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Human Resource and Talent Management than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Human Resource and Talent Management?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Johannesburg, University of Southampton and North-West University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 69.429.1%6.5×19 +52.4%
2University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 64.241.7%3.8×9 +127.3%
3North-West UniversitySouth Africa 56.024.7%8.9×12 +156.5%
4Symbiosis International UniversityIndia 55.213.8%11.2×18 +75.6%
5Durban University of TechnologySouth Africa 50.816.5%19.0×13 +363.8%
6Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 50.65.6%7.1×26 +17.1%
7University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 50.411.5%8.3×14 +439.1%
8University of MalayaMalaysia 50.315.7%5.1×14 +122.7%
9National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 44.915.4%3.9×12 +48.9%
10Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 42.13.5%5.6×20 +314.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Human Resource and Talent Management, country by country

Is Human Resource and Talent Management research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Human Resource and Talent Management.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Human Resource and Talent Management as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Human Resource and Talent Management over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Human Resource and Talent Management11.1% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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