A Bibliometric Review of Technostress: Historical Roots, Evolution and Central Publications of a Growing Research Field
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While previous research has provided critical insights into the different perspectives, methods, and theories on technostress, there is currently no bibliometric review available that clarifies the evolution and structure of the field. We use three bibliometric methods to assess the body of 252 technostress publications until 2019: reference publication year spectroscopy, co-word analysis, and co-citation analysis. In doing so, we analyze how the technostress field has evolved over time, clarify the interconnected concepts forming the discourse and identify the most influential works.
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Five technostressors (techno-invasion, techno-overload, techno-insecurity, techno-uncertainty, techno-complexity) are well established in technostress research and provide the conceptual basis for many articles.
“five typical stressors established by Ragu-Nathan et al. (2008), often referred to as technostressors, are well established in technostress research and provide the conceptual basis for many articles (Grummeck-Braamt et al. 2021)”
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- Authors
- Grummeck-Braamt, J.-V., Nastjuk, I., Najmaei, A., & Adam, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- Australian Catholic University (AU)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Published
- 2021
- ISSN
- 1530-1605 (ISSN-L)
- 2572-6862
- OpenAlex
- W3127537522
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 60
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2
- FWCI
- 6.82
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (publishedVersion)
- ScholarSpace (University of Hawaii at Manoa) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Journal of the Association for Information Systems (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- NOVA (University of Newcastle Australia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Technostress in Professional Settings
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
- Keywords
- technostress, research field evolution, co-word analysis, co-citation analysis, influential publications
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