Fig 1.
Overall summary of the steps and methods used to conduct this study.
Fig 2.
Clusters of teleworking research developed using direct citation network analysis and clustering methods.
A total of 24 clusters were created and the figure shows the top 6 clusters.
Fig 3.
Trends of the top 10 clusters between 2010 and 2022.
Table 1.
The top 10 clusters are named using the dominant theme with the most important quantitative data (number of articles, average publication year, top 3 journals, most cited articles, and top 3 authors.
Fig 4.
Average publication year of the top 10 clusters.
Six clusters (highlighted) are emerging clusters that had an average publication year within the last four years (i.e., after 2018).
Fig 5.
Number of articles (retrieved and connected) and number of patent applications between 2010 and 2022.
Fig 6.
Citation relativity illustration of the top 10 clusters.
The dashed lines represent the average values of ratios. (I) Topic specific; (II) domain specific; (III) specific & global; (IV) global.
Table 2.
Average number of citations for the top 10 clusters.
Fig 7.
Citation relatively illustration of the 2nd level clusters of the top 4 clusters.
The dashed lines represent the average values of ratios. (I) Topic specific; (II) domain specific; (III) specific & global; (IV) global.
Table 3.
Average number of citations for the 2nd level sub-clusters of clusters #1.
Table 4.
Average number of citations for the 2nd level sub-clusters of clusters #2.
Table 5.
Average number of citations for the 2nd level sub-clusters of clusters #3.
Table 6.
Average number of citations for the 2nd level sub-clusters of clusters #4.
Fig 8.
Illustration of how the adoption of teleworking may have influenced the dynamic of labor market.
Fig 9.
Groups of teleworking research topic’s clusters based on citation relativity analysis and the shift of clusters towards topic-specific group.