Global knowledge management research: A bibliometric analysis |
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Authors: | Gu Yinian |
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Affiliation: | (1) Tsinghua University, East 4-2-402, Beijing, 100084, P.R.China |
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Abstract: | The present study characterizes the dynamic publication activity of global knowledge management (KM) by data collected through
a search restricted to articles in ISI Web of Science.A total of 2727 unique authors had contributed 1407 publications since 1975. The overwhelming majority (2349 or 86%) of them
wrote one publication. The productive authors, their contribution and authorship position are listed to indicate their productivity
and degree of involvement in their research publications. The sum of research output of the first or responsible authors from
USA, UK and Germany reaches 57% of the total productivity. The distribution of articles is rather widespread - they published
in 462 titles of serials, spanning 110 Journal Citation Reports subject categories. The higher quality journals make publication of findings more visible. A Pearson's correlation coefficient
is statistically found to be significant between citation frequency of article and impact factor of journal, instead of authorship
pattern. The results also indicate that R&D expenditures were actually not proportional to research productivity or citation
counts. As the subject highly interacts with other disciplines, the field of KM has not yet developed its own body of literature.
KM might have been evolving an interdisciplinary theory that is developing at the boundaries of scientific disciplines.
This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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