Tuesday 25 December 2018

Major trends in knowledge management research: a bibliometric study

Tuesday, 25 December 2018

Major trends in knowledge management research: a bibliometric study

Scientometrics
, Volume 107, Issue 3, pp 1249–1264 | Cite as

Major trends in knowledge management research: a bibliometric study

  • Peyman Akhavan
  • Nader Ale Ebrahim
  • Mahdieh A. Fetrati
  • Amir Pezeshkan
  • Peyman Akhavan
    • 1
  • Nader Ale Ebrahim
    • 2
  • Mahdieh A. Fetrati
    • 3
  • Amir Pezeshkan
    • 4
  1. 1.Department of ManagementMalek Ashtar University of TechnologyTehranIran
  2. 2.Department of Engineering Design and ManufactureUniversity of MalayaKuala LumpurMalaysia
  3. 3.Aalborg UniversityAalborgDenmark
  4. 4.Department of Management and International Business, Merrick School of BusinessUniversity of BaltimoreBaltimoreUSA
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Abstract

This study provides an overview of the knowledge management literature from 1980 through 2014. We employ bibliometric and text mining analyses on a sample of 500 most cited articles to examine the impact of factors such as number of authors, references, pages, and keywords on the number of citations that they received. We also investigate major trends in knowledge management literature including the contribution of different countries, variations across publication years, and identifying active research areas and major journal outlets. Our study serves as a resource for future studies by shedding light on how trends in knowledge management research have evolved over time and demonstrating the characteristics of the most cited articles in this literature. Specifically, our results reveal that the most cited articles are from United States and United Kingdom. The most prolific year in terms of the number of published articles is 2009 and in terms of the number of citations is 2012. We also found a positive relationship between the number of publications’ keywords, references, and pages and the number of citations that they have received. Finally, the Journal of Knowledge Management has the largest share in publishing the most cited articles in this field.

Keywords

Bibliometric Citation analysis Knowledge management Research productivity 
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Acknowledgments

Authors would like to express their special thanks to anonymous reviewers that really enriched this research with their valuable comments by three rounds of review.

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Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency


Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013
7 Pages Posted: 25 Oct 2013
See all articles by Nader Ale Ebrahim

Nader Ale Ebrahim

Centre for Research Services, Institute of Management and Research Services (IPPP), University of Malaya (UM); University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture

Hadi Salehi

Islamic Azad University, Najafabad Branch

Mohamed Amin Embi

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Education

Farid Habibi

University of Economic Sciences

Hossein Gholizadeh

University of Malaya (UM) - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Seyed Mohammad Motahar

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia - Faculty of Information Science and Technology

Ali Ordi

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia - Advance Informatics School (AIS)
Date Written: October 23, 2013

Abstract

Due to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely.
Keywords: University ranking, Improve citation, Citation frequency, Research impact, Open access, h-index
JEL Classification: L11, L1, L2, M11, M12, M1, M54, Q1, O1, O3, P42, P24, P29, Q31, Q32, L17

Ale Ebrahim, Nader and Salehi, Hadi and Embi, Mohamed Amin and Habibi, Farid and Gholizadeh, Hossein and Motahar, Seyed Mohammad and Ordi, Ali, Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency (October 23, 2013). International Education Studies, Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 93-99, 2013. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2344585
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