The knowledge management field from bibliometries

• Autor(a) principal: Elias, Maria Ligia Ganacim Granado Rodrigues
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Machado, Hilka Pelizza Vier
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/38678
• topic: Knowledge Management; Bibliometrics; Information; Academic Production; Gestión del Conocimiento; Bibliometría; Informacion; Producción Académica; Gestão do Conhecimento; Bibliometria; Informação; Produção Acadêmica

Introduction: Knowledge Management is an interdisciplinary field, as a result, several bibliometric studies on the field have been published, seeking to identify its scope and contours. Objective: Map bibliometric studies in Knowledge Management in order to understand the boundaries of the field of study as well as the interfaces with other areas. Methodology: Qualitative, constituting a systematic analysis of bibliometric studies on knowledge management between 2008 and 2018. Results: Bibliometric studies have shown that the field emerged around the 1970s and was consolidated from some seminal works. Throughout the 1990s, several areas contributed to the approach of themes that were incorporated into KM studies. Since the 2000s, the number of publications has expanded considerably, making the field multifaceted and developing into two strands, one with scientific publications in several Journals and another in Conferences. Conclusions: KM´s field presents itself as a broad field of study, with the contribution of the following areas: Computer Science, Administration/Management/ Organizations; Economy; Information Science/Information Systems; Communication; Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Library Science. There is little convergence between the areas that contribute to the construction of the field, both in terms of authors and publications.