Bibliometric methods in management and organization

Tools

Zupic, Ivan and Cater, Tomaz. 2015. Bibliometric methods in management and organization. Organizational Research Methods, 18(3), pp. 429-472. ISSN 1094-4281 [Article]

Preview

Text
Zupic Cater 2015 - Bibliometric methods in management and organization.pdf - Accepted Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial.
Download (2MB) | Preview

Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428114562629

Abstract or Description

We aim to develop a meaningful single-source reference for management and organization scholars interested in using bibliometric methods for mapping research specialties. Such methods introduce a measure of objectivity into the evaluation of scientific literature and hold the potential to increase rigor and mitigate researcher bias in reviews of scientific literature by aggregating the opinions of multiple scholars working in the field. We introduce the bibliometric methods of citation analysis, co-citation analysis, bibliographical coupling, co-author analysis, and co-word analysis and present a workflow for conducting bibliometric studies with guidelines for researchers. We envision that bibliometric methods will complement meta-analysis and qualitative structured literature reviews as a method for reviewing and evaluating scientific literature. To demonstrate bibliometric methods, we performed a citation and co-citation analysis to map the intellectual structure of the Organizational Research Methods journal.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1177/1094428114562629