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Research on laissez-faire leadership is not yet sufficient. In this study, 58 articles that were published in the WoS database between 1990-2021 and whose titles included the words laissez-faire leadership, passive leadership or avoidant leadership were included in the analysis. In this study, the development of the field over the years has been mapped by identifying the most important publications, journals, authors and countries in the field. Then co-occurrence of keywords analysis and bibliographic coupling analyzes were applied. The results showed that the most articles were published in 2021, the most productive journals were Work And Stress and Frontiers in Psychology, the most productive author was Skogstad, A., the most productive country was the USA. According to the bibliometric analysis results, the most frequently used keywords are laissez-faire leadership, passive leadership, leadership, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez-faire, safety climate, passive avoidant leadership and workplace bullying. The author with the highest bibliographic coupling strength is Skogstad, A., the journal Work and Stress, and the country is USA. The results can provide researchers with a strong basis to develop understanding of the current direction in the field and identify new trends.

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