Teacher burnout: a bibliometric analysis of scientific production indexed on Scopus

Introduction: The technical and organizational changes in the work environment lead to the appearance of emerging psychosocial risks. The teaching profession constitutes a risk profession when it comes to psychosocial risks, in particular Burnout. Objectives: To learn about the diachronic productivity of the last twenty years on Burnout and Burnout in Teaching. To verify if Price's Law is fulfilled. To determine which countries, produce the most scientific documents on the subject. To indicate what the main thematic areas are and the dominant journals into which the publications are classified. To establish the connections between the different descriptors with regard to the keywords analysed. Methods: A descriptive bibliometric analysis has been carried out. The sample consisted of documents indexed in the Scopus database. The units of analysis were the keywords that were extracted automatically. Bibliometric maps were created using a methodology based on co-word analysis, clustering techniques and visualization techniques. Results: An exponential increase in production has been observed in this research topic, confirming Price's Law. Only ten countries account for almost 70% of total production. Medicine, Nursing, Psychology and Social Sciences are the main areas of research on the topic. Conclusions: It has been verified that the topic under analysis is a current multidisciplinary research front and that scientific production is highly concentrated. It has been verified that bibliometric maps are an adequate instrument to understand the thematic structure of this research topic.