Payroll system: A bibliometric analysis of the literature

Abstract

Payroll processing is an imperative process in an organization; it involves many tasks to ensure accurate and timely payments of the workforces’ services, and to protect organization’s reputation through effective record-keeping compliance with the government authorities’ employment legislations. Despite its important function in the organization process, studies on payroll processing is quite limited, as compared to other transaction processing systems such as sales and purchase. This paper observes the trend of articles published on payroll system that has been indexed by the Google Scholar as at February 2018. This study aims to provide insights into the characteristics of the issues related to payroll system using a bibliometric analysis. Articles that matched with the keywords [allintitle: payroll system OR systems OR application OR applications OR software] in the Google Scholar has been obtained and analyzed. After conducted the cleaning process i.e. by completing the meta-data of the articles and removing some of the irrelevant and duplicate articles, 170 articles are available for further analysis. It is found that, the number of published payroll system articles are increasing in the past five years. Most of the articles has been published as journal articles, academic dissertations and conference papers. The output of this study can help researchers to understand the landscape of the global research and issues on payroll system and establish further research directions in this field.