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ArticleJournal of religion and health2025

Spiritual Leadership Research: Past, Present and Future Using Bibliometric Analysis.

Rajni, Naval Garg, Stuti Jalan

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Article in Journal of religion and health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

RajniGarden City University, Battarahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Naval GargDelhi Technological University, New Delhi, India.
Stuti JalanM. M. Institute of Management, Maharishi Markandeshwar Deemed University, Mullana, Haryana, India. stuti.vashisht@mmumullana.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9059-6543

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Given a dearth of comprehensive assessments, this study provided a quantitative and scientific analysis of 286 articles on spiritual leadership (SL) published in Scopus-indexed journals. Citation, cluster and co-citation analysis were employed to highlight the key works, sketch the intellectual framework and identify the research gaps. The most influential documents, journals, authors/researchers, countries and universities were also determined using citation analysis. Besides author co-citation and journal co-citation, analysis were also performed to determine the intellectual structure of SL literature, followed by a thorough review of authors' keywords utilizing cluster analysis. Keyword co-occurrence cluster analysis led to the identification of five major clusters/streams: (a) spiritual leadership and well-being; (b) spiritual leadership and other types of leadership; (c) spiritual leadership and creativity; (d) spiritual leadership and employee-level outcomes; (e) spiritual leadership, sustainability and spirituality. Future research directions were suggested within each identified cluster. This study will assist regulators and academic scholars in understanding the nuts and bolts of spiritual leadership and identifying areas that require more research.

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BibliometricsLeadershipResearchSpiritualityHumansBibliometric analysisCitation analysisCluster analysisPRISMASpiritual leadershipWorkplace spirituality

Identifiers

PMID39557819

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.