Bibliometric Analysis on Knowledge Management Research

This paper explores the research trends in terms of growth of literature, geographical distribution, most productive journals, top authors, highly cited papers etc. in the field of Knowledge Management (KM). A total of 5127 articles (as on 30/01/2015) for the period of 15 years (2000–2014) were downloaded from Web of Science (WOS) database. Lotka's law and Bradford's law of scattering were used to identify author's productivity and core journals in this field respectively. As per rank of the journals, it is found that “Journal of Knowledge Management ”is the most productive journal with 269 articles (4.67%). It is also observed that author productivity match the original Lotka's Law and distribution of articles is in accordance with Bradford's law of scattering.