Bibliometric Analysis: Research on Bullying and Relational Bullying

Abstract

Bullying cases in the last few decades are global issues that have not been resolved. Research on bullying still needs to be done to find novelty. This article used bibliometric analyses to analyze specific psychology and social science bullying research and find out the factors and forms of relational bullying based on online data on web science. The method focused on the Scopus database and was analyzed through scoping reviews and bibliometric analysis with several publications per year for the last ten years (2013–2022). Relational bullying used NVivo 12 Plus qualitative data analysis software (QDSA) with several publications from 2015–2022. The findings showed that bullying publications continue to increase yearly from 2016 to 2022 and are still a global issue. The United States and the United Kingdom are the top two countries that contribute the most publications. VOSviewer bibliometric analysis found eight clusters due to network visualization, overlay, and density of related themes, and a research gap, interest in relational bullying for future research. The originality of this research lies in relational bullying and its supporting factors.