Purpose

Human resource development (HRD) as an applied discipline is an example of a scholarly field that has emerged through the collaboration of scholars and practitioners with backgrounds in various foundational disciplines. This study interested in both the influence of other disciplines on HRD research and in HRD’s influence on other disciplines. The purpose of this study is to take stock of the relationships between HRD research and research in other academic disciplines affecting and affected by HRD research.

Design/methodology/approach

The study used content analysis of the top 100 most frequently cited empirical articles published in three HRD journals between 2000 and 2019 to identify disciplinary foundations of HRD research. The influence of HRD on other disciplines was scrutinized through citation analysis of work citing the top 100 articles. In addition, categorizing the 100 articles into six research themes, the influence of six research themes on citation patterns was explored.

Findings

The findings indicated that empirical research in HRD, as represented by the top 100 articles, relied mainly on theories and frameworks from two disciplines, management and psychology. Another important finding is that the top 100 HRD articles were cited most often in management publications and the rate of citation in management journals has been growing rapidly since 2005. The citation frequency of HRD articles in other disciplines including psychology, social sciences, education and medicine and nursing shows a general upward trend as well. In addition, there was a difference in disciplines providing theoretical foundations to the HRD articles and citing the articles depending on six predominant research themes, identified in HRD articles.

Originality/value

This study empirically identified theories and disciplines contributing to HRD research, considering the influence of cited research on the HRD articles through content analysis. In addition, the findings of this study broadened the understanding of the relationship between HRD research and other disciplines by examining the contributions of HRD articles to other disciplines. Finally, this research provided new information regarding the changes in dominant themes in HRD research over time.

中文翻译：

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HRD与其他学科有什么关系？对发表在三个 HRD 期刊上的 100 篇最常引用的实证文章的分析

目的

人力资源开发 (HRD) 作为一门应用学科是一个学术领域的例子，它是通过具有各种基础学科背景的学者和从业者的合作而出现的。本研究对其他学科对 HRD 研究的影响和 HRD 对其他学科的影响都感兴趣。本研究的目的是评估 HRD 研究与影响和受 HRD 研究影响的其他学科研究之间的关系。

设计/方法/方法

该研究对 2000 年至 2019 年间发表在三个 HRD 期刊上的前 100 篇最常引用的实证文章进行了内容分析，以确定 HRD 研究的学科基础。通过对引用前 100 篇文章的工作进行引文分析，审查 HRD 对其他学科的影响。此外，将100篇文章分为六个研究主题，探讨了六个研究主题对引文模式的影响。

发现

研究结果表明，以排名前 100 的文章为代表的 HRD 实证研究主要依赖于管理和心理学两个学科的理论和框架。另一个重要发现是，前 100 篇 HRD 文章在管理出版物中被引用次数最多，并且自 2005 年以来管理期刊的引用率快速增长。 HRD 文章在其他学科（包括心理学、社会科学、教育和医学）中的引用频率护理也呈现普遍上升趋势。此外，在为 HRD 文章提供理论基础的学科和根据 HRD 文章中确定的六个主要研究主题引用文章方面存在差异。

原创性/价值

本研究通过内容分析考虑了被引研究对 HRD 文章的影响，实证确定了对 HRD 研究有贡献的理论和学科。此外，本研究的结果通过检查 HRD 文章对其他学科的贡献，拓宽了对 HRD 研究与其他学科之间关系的理解。最后，这项研究提供了有关 HRD 研究中主导主题随时间变化的新信息。