Emotional Intelligence as Intangible Class Content for Effective Communication in Managing University Classes: A Bibliometrics Analysis

John Mayer and Peter Salavoy devised the term ‗Emotional Intelligence‘ in 1990, later popularized by psychologist Daniel Goleman psychologist Daniel Goleman and popularized through his scholarly work Emotional Intelligence in 1995. Since then this term has fascinated the world. The Harvard Business Review of 2003 determined that 80% of competencies distinguishing the top performers from the rest were owing to their high emotional intelligence. A lot of research has been done in the area since the last decade of the twentieth century conferring Emotional Intelligence (EI) a superior position to its equally important counterpart, the Intelligence Quotient (IQ). The present study aims to map the growing research, spread across domains covering Emotional Intelligence as a central theme, through a review of published articles in the Scopus database. In all, 860 articles were retrieved and refined to take 680 final articles. The data extracted was analysed based on different bibliographic parameters was visualized with the help of VOS viewer. Based on the contributions made by the countries, Spain topped the list with 137 contributions whereas the US topped the list of total link strength (1892). The overly visualization of the authors‘ bibliographic coupling shows that the most substantial authors were Extremera N. (with 20 publications), Merida-Lopez S. (with 13 publications), and Brackett M. A. (with 10 publications). In contrast, emotional intelligence, stress, self-efficacy, burnout, academic achievement have been the most recurrently considered and referred concepts. The most significant and prominent journal has been Frontiers in Psychology and Teaching and Teacher Education in this field. Frontiers in Psychology‖, Sustainability (Switzerland), and ―International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health‖ topped the list of the latest publications in this literature.