Researcher competences in higher education institutions: a bibliometric analysis

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the existing body of knowledge on researcher competencies in higher education institutions using bibliometric techniques. The principal objectives are to identify key themes, trends, and research gaps. This study explores how emerging themes such as research ethics, open science, and digital literacy are reshaping researcher competencies and serves as the foundation for a future empirical study based on the European Competence Framework for Researchers. The author analysed how annual publication dynamics relate to significant events that occurred during peak years. The most popular journals were examined. A VOS viewer co-occurrence analysis was chosen as the method of examination, and all key terms were carefully analysed.