A citation and co-citation analysis of 10 years of KM theory and practices

Citation classics published in knowledge management journals. Part I: articles and their characteristics

“…These are academics, journal editors, conference organizers, granting agencies, managers of research centers, university administrators, practitioners, and students who need to make informed decisions that will affect their careers, academic institutions or organizations. It is for this reason a number of scholars have previously investigated the history, development, and identity of KM as a scholarly discipline (Heisig, 2009;Serenko, Bontis and Grant, 2009;Curado, Oliveira and Maçada, 2011;Lambe, 2011;Ragab and Arisha, 2013;Ribière and Walter, 2013;Walter and Ribière, 2013). Accordingly, Petty and Guthrie (2000, p. 156) state that "understanding the state of play is a logical first step in strategically orienting the discipline and establishing paths for future progress.…”

“…As a result, previous research findings have been somewhat limited. For example, they presented very short lists of well-cited works (Croasdell et al, 2003;Jennex and Croasdell, 2005;Ma and Yu, 2010), did not distinguish among publication types (e.g., in a single study, they combined books, book chapters, and journal articles which are sometimes difficult to compare) (Landrum et al, 2010;Walter and Ribière, 2013), relied exclusively on Thomson Reuters citation indexes that exclude most KM-centric journals (Timonen and Paloheimo, 2008), and selected references from only a few journals . Despite their limitations, the contribution of the studies above is unarguable.…”

Reviewing the literature in the IS field: Two bibliometric techniques to guide readings and help the interpretation of the literature

“…CCA has been used very little in IS research, and even more so reference CCA. We identified 23 texts, of which only 6 used reference CCA (see Appendix A): Córdoba, Pilkington and Bernroider 2012; Hsiao and Yang, 2011;Raghuram, Tuertscher and Garud, 2010;Renaud, Walsh and Kalika, 2016;Walter and Ribière, 2013; Although CCA is the bibliometric technique most used to explore the knowledge base of a scientific field, and it is very useful to identify the theoretical pillars of a field, it does not allow the investigation of the current trends of the field (Zupic and Cater, 2015), mainly because the publication process is time-consuming and it can be a long time before a paper is highly cited, hence co-cited. This drawback may be counteracted by applying another bibliographic technique -bibliographic coupling analysis.…”

“…More specifically, the co-citation analysis (CCA) of references may be extremely useful to help identify the theoretical and/or methodological pillars (seminal texts) to which a field is anchored, whereas the bibliographic coupling analysis (BCA) of documents may help identify the current themes/trends of the field (Zupic and Cater, 2015). However, few studies in IS research use CCA of references, where the co-citations of scientific works are studied (we identified six of them: Córdoba, Pilkington & Bernroider, 2012;Hsiao & Yang, 2011;Raghuram, Tuertscher & Garud, 2010;Renaud, Walsh & Kalika, 2016;Walter & Ribière, 2013;; it is mostly author CCA that is used in IS research where the co-citations of authors are studied e.g., Culnan, 1987or Li, Ng & Ye, 2014. Furthermore, we found in IS only one study that uses some adapted form of BCA to map the field of patents (Liu et al, 2011).…”

Examining influential factors for acknowledgements classification using supervised learning

“…In addition, if we can detect the hidden knowledge in the contents of intellectual indebtedness, we better understand why and how authors appreciate their collaborators. In the field of content analysis, most researchers have focused on examining abstract as well as full-text, which are structured content, by applying several methods such as co-authorship and citation analysis for bibliometrics related research [11][12][13][14]. In contrast, the text of acknowledgement remains unexplored.…”