Mapping Pivotal Issues of Collective Action Research: Scientometrics Analysis of Publications

This paper aims to analyze the terms related to collective action research and to identify their evolution and change in the decades from 1992, when the first publication appeared in the Scopus database, to the present. Past scholars have examined collective action in several fields of research, but the breakthrough paper using scientometrics has not been found. Therefore, this paper is an original to clarify the work within terms based on selected keywords from collective action research, and it yielded 1150 articles. To demonstrate, we used a scientometrics approach of the VOSViewer tool for data visualization. The findings indicate that the concern of collective action has attracted experts to generate various points of view for research, and we forecast that this study will become increasingly noticeable in the coming few years since it was explored. Importantly, we recorded co-authorship and network collaboration, citation by some point of view, as well as annual current issues of collective action. Moreover, we exhibited terms that scholars used to conduct collective action research, such as leadership, legitimacy, solidarity, resilience, capacity-building, advocacy, regulation, accountability, power, and trust.