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Skill Development, Youth Employability and

Digitalization: A Biblometric Analysis Using
VOS Viewer
Dr. Bishwajeet Prakash
Assistant Professor
Sharda School of Law,
Sharda University, Greater Noida
Corresponding Author

Neha Rajput Risha Thakur

Company Secretary, ACS Research Scholar
SUNAIR HOTELS LIMITED Sharda School of Law,
Sharda University, Greater Noida

Abstract:- Purpose – The motive of the present paper is to of the world as well process to developing the skill of labor
extensive depth analysis of literature and provide force of the nation ((Blom & Saeki, 2011) 1 . The
additional innovative on skill development and youth organizational and nation both made the program and policies
employability. The objective of the present analysis to to develop skill among youth, and helps to solve two major
conduct thematic analysis on skill development, vocational problems of the world namely poverty and unemployment
institutions, technical education, digitalization and (King and McGrath, 2002). In developing nations like India,
employment opportunities generation among youth which faces transformational change in economies, (shifting
generation with labour market reform and associated with agriculture labour force to manufacturing /service sector), skill
skill development. The study includes 943 articles on skill development solve the problem of transition. The skill
development, youth, employability, digitalization research development helps to reduces not only prominent problems
in world conducted from 2012-2022. This study extracted (poverty, unemployment) but also help to built democracy
from Scopus in area of digitalization, skill development with human rights and continuous, sustainable and quick
and employability in various domain by using bibliometric human development resources and help organization to
analysis of literature via VOS smart viewer.The finding of competitor with external environment (Horwitz, 2013). The
the study indicate role of digitalization, government skill development and technical education leads youth to
institution, vocational training institution are effective develop ability and capacity through deliberate and systematic
tools for the skill development and youth employability in training helps them to enhance their performance. After the
country. The study include the values of systematic adoption of liberalization policies in India, a sustainable
literature review on skill development, youth, employment economic growth of country is much highly depended upon
scale, digitalization and innovation concept would provide skilled work force, especially in manufacturing and service
insights to various academician, research scholar, sector (Agrawal, 2014; Mehrotra and Ghosh, 2014). The
government authorities in their plan formulation. economic growth of the country is highly depended upon
skilled labor workforce participation, to strengthen the
Keywords:- Systematic Literature Review, Digitalization, Skill economic growth of the country, it is vital to invest in skill
Development, Youth, Employability, Bibliometric Analysis, development and training to the youths. The economy growth
Vos Viewer of country is highly depended on employment growth among
youth and role of vocational training among youth generation
I. INTRODUCTION helps to generate huge employment potential among youth
(Tara & Kumar, 2016). The skill development programs,
The new industrial development enhanced the consumer technical education support, employability added the
demand and make producers more competitive, the demographic advantage helps to speedy growth of the country,
competitiveness among the producer countries, the concept of
skill development has emerged as international importance.
1
Skill development as important tools to solve major problems Blom, A., & Saeki, H. (2011). Employability and skill set of
newly graduated engineers in India. The World Bank.

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and leads to accelerate highly economic growth within and digitalization, employability, and vocational training have
outside the country. Unemployment is the root cause of been used in the search engine of the Scopus data to utilize
several societal problems such as higher crime among youth, closed research publication extracted. As per result of search
drug abuses, and depression among youth, psychological and engine on various keywords, a extensive numbers of research
political instability. It is observed that the unemployed publication were published globally. The sort out the article
persons are more vulnerable towards crime. Thus, for the discrimination based upon year of publication, journal,
healthy social structure, it is quite important to control the language, title, abstract, citation numbers, document type were
unemployment. As skill development may provide the selected and sort the data and exported them in csv format that
employment or making capable the persons for the self met the criteria. The retrieval of database took place on 15-10-
employment and so this can be seen as an avenue to control 2022, and concurrences themes, citation, co-citation,
the unemployment (Sharma & Mishra, 2015). Skill authorship, co-authorship, bibliographic were examined by
development among youth and inclusion of digital technology using VOS viewer (version 1.6.10), and total 943 research
are three major engines of economic growth and social papers has been examined and extensively abstracted for this
development of country (Ahmad et.al,2016). High technology study.
transfer through skill development enhance better knowledge
transfer among youth and respond more effectively and Table 1. Average Document Per Author
promptly employment generation in the country Description Result
(Prakash,2019). Developing countries like India is transition to Documents 943
knowledge transfer through skill development helps youth to Keywords (with with highest total limit 352
generate their own ventures and ability to people create more strength)
traditional work in modern ways (Mishra et.al,2022). Author’s key (KEYWORDS with the 163
highest total limit strength)
 Objective of Study Average citations per research 2.67
The present article aims to provide compete overview documents
present work on skill development, youth and employment Authors 121
generation during the period 2012-22. The study is based on Documents per author 2.24
extensive research and subject of skill development and to
review recent article to establish thematic research The data extraction took place on October 15, 2022. The
progression. The study’s also provide a depth study of present extraction in the form of concurrences, major themes, Citation
scenario of skill development, youth, employment generation (highest to lowest), Co-author citation, Co-authorship and
and role of digitalization in various work. Bibliographic coupling, were examined using VOS viewer
(version 1.6.10). The total number of papers extracted for this
II. METHODOLOGY study was 943, and the research article includes were written
by 121 authors, with an average research document per author
The present study uses experimental learning theory of 2.24. (Table I)
(Kolb,1984) and includes various studies related to skill
development, innovation and employability skill. The era of  Bibliometric analysis of publication country:
experimental learning in skill development process and Total 943 publications (Table 1) on skill development
procedures, experimental learning broadly viewed two were identified in the Scopus database between 2012 and
perspectives firstly, field based learning in innovation, skill August 2022. The count of the publication has been selected
and role of vocational training through internships, practical entire research articles and minimum citation paper
exposures, services. Secondly, the experimental learning (“minimum citation=1)”.The total 101 countries research
purposes skill knowledge, attitudinal level and critical thinking publication meet these threshold. Fig 1. The countries that
and reflective the ability to take course to achieve the desired appeared most were the United Kingdom (212), followed by
goals (Lewis and Williams, 2006, (Kolb and Kolb, 2008). united states (190) and Spain (40). The all together three
countries predominantly have 442 research papers/scholarly
In present study on skill development published research articles (almost 45%) in skill development, employability and
article 2012 to August 2022 was skimmed from Scopus digitalization.
database collection. The key words “skill development,

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Fig 1 Keyword Visualisation Analysis (VOS Viewer)

 Bibliometric analysis of the keywords:

The keywords input of authors in their research manuscript and followed more than three times in the Scopus core database were
combined result in to final analysis. In order from 943 research papers most frequent, most relevant, most co-associated key words
were 761, out of which 650 met the threshold. The keywords are closed and linked with various authors were employability (146),
higher education (61), Youth (40), education (36) and skill (35). The figure 2 depicts that these four employments, skill development
and youth generation are major key words components in the existing literature database

Fig 2 (Content wise VOS Viwer)

 Bibliometric analysis of the Publication and cumulative papers:

Figure 3 reviews the evolution of both the individual Publication and cumulative Publication about the research on digital
transformation, skill development and youth employbility in management since 2012. Figure 3 further indicates that research articles
published before 2012 can be viewed as researchers providing the groundwork for the present research topic. The surge in digital
transformation and youth employbility research popularity in these domains began only in the last decade, most noticeably in 2016.

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Articles
200
180
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Articles
80
60
40
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Fig 3 reviews the evolution of both the individual Publication

Table-2: Top 10 Countries Of Digital Transformation Research

Country No. of publication Percentage Citation Average Citation
United Kingdom 212 18.97 2372 11.18868
USA 190 17.00 2144 11.28421
Australia 83 7.43 1705 20.54217
Netherlands 36 3.22 491 13.63889
Germany 34 3.04 488 14.35294
Canada 39 3.49 430 11.02564
Italy 19 1.70 379 19.94737
Denmark 7 0.62 333 47.57143
south Africa 34 3.04 268 7.882353
Spain 40 3.58 237 5.925
Norway 9 0.80 197 21.88889
China 19 1.43 194 12.125

From the analysis of the above mentioned table 57 countries have mostly published at least one publication to skill development
and vocational training in Scopus data set. The table indicate top 10 countries with highest number of publication and highest citation
on scholarly articles published on top key words i.e skill development, employability, work force and youth. The list was surpassed by
United Kingdom (212 documents) with 18.97%, followed by United States of America (USA) with (190 documents) with 17%. These
both countries documents have been highest citation level 2372 (United Kingdom) and 2144 cited (United States of America) and
highest cited impact average 11.18% and followed 11.28% for (USA). The table also indicates that 8 countries national contribution
came from industrial countries and developed countries.

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TABLE-3: TOP 10 University Of Skill Development Research
University No. of Publication Citation Average Citation
Harvard graduate school of education, united states 2 145 72.5
Iza, bonn, germany 2 128 64
University of Graz, Austria 2 105 52.5
University Of Brighton, United Kingdom 2 104 52
University Of California, Irvine, United States 4 73 18.25
Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom 2 70 35
Fidipro Programme, University Of Jyvaskyla, Finland 2 70 35
Kihu, Research Institute For Olympic Sports, Jyväskylä, Finland 2 70 35
Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom 3 69 23
School of sport, university of stirling, stirling, united kingdom 2 65 32.5
Utrecht university, netherlands 3 60 20

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