Affiliation:
1. Faculty of Economics and Business, University San Pablo CEU, 28003 Madrid, Spain
2. Faculty of Communication Sciences, University San Pablo CEU, 28003 Madrid, Spain
Abstract
Despite the fact that the member countries of the European Union initiated a reform of university education two decades ago to promote employability, giving importance to soft skills beyond the purely technical ones of each degree, there is still an important contrast between the demand for this type of skills on the part of the labor market and the educational offerings of universities. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the impact that the concept of employability and soft skills really has on the scientific community and the patterns of collaboration between the European Union, the UK and Switzerland, among researchers in these matters, through a bibliometric study of the scientific publications in the area, collected in the databases Web of Science and Scopus during the period from 1996–2022, presenting the most significant bibliometric data through a descriptive and quantitative methodology. The main results allow us to detect, among other conclusions, an increase in scientific production from 2010 but minimal scientific collaboration, since 90% of the total number of works were signed by a single author. Two countries, the UK and Australia, have 80% more scientific production on these topics than Spain. This bibliometric study offers a descriptive and analytical panorama, from diachronic and synchronic perspectives, of the main bibliometric variables in two of the databases with the greatest impact among the scientific community (WOS and Scopus), allowing researchers and institutions to visualize the most developed study trends and the strongest emerging lines of research. The necessary rapprochement between the university and the company, in this way, will help the university to know its present situation but also to discover what learning strategy it should consider reducing the training gap in competences.
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