International Journal of Information Dissemination and Technology
  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 4

Highly Cited Articles in Knowledge Management: A Study of the Content and Authorship Trend

1Assistant Professor, DLIS, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla, Odisha, India

2Research Scholar, DLIS, Sambalpur University, Jyotivihar, Burla, Odisha, India

*Corresponding Author Jyotshna Sahoo, jyotshna_sahoo@suniv.ac.in

Online published on 13 June, 2019.

Abstract

The very purpose of the present paper is to identify and to examine the most highly cited articles, published in the discipline of Knowledge Management. Scopus database has been taken as a data source to find out the citation counts for articles appeared in the KM disciplinary journals. The top ranked authors, institutions and countries contributed in the field of KM are analysed. Core journals associated with the highly cited articles are identified along with the areas of research. Further, all the keywords of the articles are taken into consideration to make a rank list of keywords on the basis of the frequency of occurrences and thereby to assess the most popular domains of KM research.

Keywords

Knowledge Management, Highly Cited Articles, KM Journals, Prolific Authors, Productive Institutions, the Area of Research