Human resources audit: Bibliometric analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to present a bibliometric analysis about the scientific production on human resources auditing in the two main and recognized global databases, Scopus and Web of Science. The scientific articles found were processed using the MS Excel, RStudio, VosViewer and Bibliometrix tools, providing information about annual production, production by country, production in journals, analysis by authors, information on the level of citation of the documents, keyword matching and analysis of the documents. The scientific production about the audit of human resources in the studied databases is increasing in time, however, it is still very low, in spite of this, was highlighted studies referring to audits in the area of medicine, innovation, environmental area, compensation, human knowledge, and performance evaluation. In terms of results, it is important to note that scientific production is highly concentrated at the level of countries and continents, and especially at the level of authors. In addition, a very low level of cocitation was observed. The more specific articles on human resources auditing are not published in auditing or accounting journals, which reflects how transversal this topic is, which according to the authors will increase scientific productivity in this area in the future.