BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL DISSENT STUDIES: COMPARISON OF SCOPUS AND WOS DATABASES

Abstract

The interest in the concept of organizational dissent is rapidly increasing in national and
international literature. This study, it is aimed to determine the status of the publications on the
concept of organizational dissent. For this purpose, organizational dissent studies in Scopus and
WoS databases were examined together, and the similarities and differences between the databases
were analyzed using VOSviewer software. The first search was carried out on March 16, 2022, in
order to identify the studies in the field of organizational dissent. 70 publications were reached in
Scopus and 71 publications in WoS. In terms of the concept of organizational dissent, it has been
determined that the publications in the databases show similarities in terms of research questions.
According to the research findings, publications on organizational dissent are distributed between
the years 1985-2021. In order of the countries with the most publications, there are USA, Turkey
and Finland. Communication Research Reports is the journal with the most publications. The
authors with the most publications are respectively; Johny T. Garner, Jeffrey W. Kassing and
Stephen M. Croucher. In contrast, the most cited authors are Jeffrey W. Kassing, Johny T. Garner
and Theodore A. Aytgis. When the keywords used with organizational dissent are examined, the
most repetitive words are; it has been determined that there are "employee voice", "dissent" and
"whistle-blowing". It is seen that the only difference between the two databases is in terms of the
topics used by the databases.