“Employee Engagement and Its Impact on Well-Being in Allied Healthcare Professions: A Bibliometric Insight”

Employee engagement and employee well-being have become key constructs in healthcare workforce research, particularly amid mounting work-related stress, burnout, and workforce shortages. Although there is a large body of literature exploring engagement and well-being among nurses and physicians, the scholarly focus on allied health professionals is fragmented. This study performs a bibliometric analysis of research on employee engagement and its effects on well-being in allied healthcare professions, using data extracted from the Dimensions AI database. A corpus of 2501 peer-reviewed publications published between 2005 and 2025 was evaluated by performance indicators and scientometric mapping techniques. Bibliometric tools, namely VOSviewer and Bibliometrix, were used to analyse annual publication trends, influential journals, geographical distribution, keyword co-occurrence and network of collaboration. The results show a strong boost in scholarly activity after 2015, with dominating themes focusing on burnout, job satisfaction, psychological well-being and organisational support. Nevertheless, allied health professionals are an underrepresented occupational group. This study is a contribution to the field in terms of understanding the intellectual architecture of the field, the research lacunae identified and some research directions for the future that will facilitate workforce engagement and well-being in allied health settings.