Mindfulness Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Bibliometric analysis technique was used to ascertain the prominent authors, authors’ cooperation, prominent research journals, contributing countries, and organizations to see the progress made in mindfulness research. Web of Science was used to identify published works for the last 16 years (2005 to 2020) and data were analyzed through VOSviewer software. It was found that the concept of Mindfulness is mainly associated with high-reliability organizations (HROs), where accidents are inevitable. Much research is needed for mindfulness constructs in other industrial settings, as this research domain is still new and needs explorations. Its application in other domains of social sciences is also limited. Few new industrial sectors have been proposed to be included in Perrow’s (1948) model. Geographical inequality was observed in the publication. Slight movement from high-reliability organizations (HROs) to other less hazardous organizations was also observed for mindfulness research. Our research is unique as bibliometric analysis on mindfulness constructs is almost non-existent in the present literature. Our study contributed to the present knowledge of the body by providing a holistic view of mindfulness research for over 16 years. We also highlighted the geographical inequality for research and pointed out that more collaboration for mindfulness constructs is needed. Our research also unraveled other industries which are somewhat associated with mindfulness constructs and need further exploration. Our findings would be helpful for future research to better operationalize and relate mindfulness constructs in other fields of interest.