Research note: Mind the gaps – The problems and politics of bibliographic analysis for comparative industrial relations research on workplace equalities
本文反思了跨国比较产业关系研究中运用文献计量方法分析工作场所平等问题的挑战，指出该方法难以捕捉本土知识并翻译有争议的概念，呼吁更反思、多元和缓慢的比较研究。
This article offers a critical reflection of the challenges of conducting bibliometric analysis in cross-national comparative industrial relations research on workplace equalities. Drawing on a scoping exercise designed to map equality research in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the Netherlands, we demonstrate how bibliometric methods struggle to capture situated knowledge and translate contested concepts across national contexts. While bibliometric approaches can offer useful insights when carefully deployed, uncritical applications risk producing ‘thin’ and decontextualised findings. We engage with debates on English Language Predominance, conceptual equivalence, and epistemological diversity, and argue for more reflexive, pluralistic, and ‘slow’ comparative research, sensitive to the socially constructed and locally situated language on equality at work.