Bibliometric analysis of the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems: 2000–2020

Abstract

Purpose VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems (VJIKMS) is one of the oldest and leading journals in the knowledge management (KM) field. The purpose of this study is to conduct bibliometrics analysis of publications published in VJIKMS for the past two decades. For doing this, this paper covered the past two decades of publications and carried out a science mapping analysis of publications. Design/methodology/approach The methodology included bibliometrics and the science mapping analysis process. This paper imported the bibliographic information of VJIKMS from the abstract and citation database Scopus. Through bibliometrics method, this paper examined the citation results, author productivity, authorship pattern, research collaboration and other parameters of the selected publications. Afterward, this paper used VOSviewer software to carry out the science mapping of bibliometric networks. Findings The findings showed that VJIKMS published 718 publications during 2000–2020, which got cited 4,311 times (6 times per article) till date. Joint authorship and international collaboration have been increasing where 1,417 authors from 66 countries have published. The USA, the UK and Iran lead the KM publications in this journal. Nonaka’s publications and Journal of Knowledge Management (JKM) are highly cited references and journals in the VJIKMS. Research limitations/implications The findings of this study would help the KM students, researchers and practitioners to see the diffusion of KM globally, what are the promising areas to work and helps to know the various patterns of publications if they aim to publish in VJIKMS. Originality/value This is the first time a bibliometric analysis has been conducted to analysis of research publications published in VJIKMS. This presents a comprehensive analysis of publications between 2000 and 2020.

A review of knowledge management research in the past three decades: a bibliometric analysis

“…The objective of application of bibliometric analysis is to statistically evaluate the published articles and to measure its impact in the field of knowledge management. The studies in the past have been limited in scope with authors merely focusing on specific journals (Schiuma et al , 2020; Farooq, 2021; Islam and Widen, 2021) and the present study is an attempt to cover all the journals in the area of knowledge management. During the past 35 years, the area of knowledge management has centered around four broad areas, including knowledge management, learning, performance and innovation, which are in consistent with Agostini et al (2020), who find that knowledge management in inter-organizational contexts centered on three theoretical poles, including strategic issues, knowledge-based view and innovation.…”

“…The bibliometric analysis has been widely linked to knowledge management over the past few decades, and the studies by Serenko and Bontis have been most consistent. One of the recent studies by Islam and Widen (2021) analyzes the 718 publications in the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems using bibliometric analysis. Akhavan et al (2016) use the bibliometric analysis on 500 documents published in knowledge management and analyzed the significant trends, including most-cited countries, variations across publication years, emerging research areas and significant research outlets.…”

Proceedings of the annual meetings of the association for information science and technology: analysis of two decades of published research

“…to visualize and process data downloaded from Web of Science, SCOPUS and PubMed (van Eck and Waltman, 2010). Recent studies that have used VOSviewer are Islam and Widen (2021) who analyzed the VINE Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems from 2000 to 2020, and Gaviria-Marin et al (2018) who analyzed twenty years of the Journal of Knowledge Management . In our study, using the imported .csv file, the software helped to create a visual map of coauthorship, co-occurrence of keywords, citation, bibliographic coupling and cocitation.…”

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“…Regarding the structure of the text -in qualitative research, especially based on grounded theory methodology, the structure of the text may be atypical (introduction, research results, formulation of new theory/hypotheses, etc., against the background of existing knowledge included in the literature, conclusion). In quantitative research, on the other hand, theory is often presented at the beginning of the paper (to develop hypotheses that are further tested on this basis), while empirical research is presented later in the paper (Islam, Widen, 2023).…”