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A Bibliometric Analysis of the Most Cited Documents in Business, Management and Accounting in Ibero-America
Autor
Cortés-Sánchez, Julián David
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Resumen
There has been considerable research on business, management, and accounting (BMA) over the past century. Amid this intellectual ocean, more recently disturbed by the digital tide, bibliometric methods are crucial to identifying leading authors and emerging research topics and calculating the impact of research. Although they are important, regions such as Ibero-America have often been overlooked in global studies. Consequently, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of the ten most cited BMA documents in each country in Ibero-America from 1996 to 2017, using the citation database Scopus. We considered 19 variables when conducting the bibliometric analysis. The main findings were: 1) a rapid increase in document production; 2) both Spain and Portugal domain the overall documents’ production and citations; 3) English is the lingua franca; 4) the most discussed documents lie behind paywalls; 5) the most desired journal in the region is also the most suspicious; 6) there is a Pareto distribution in terms of both document-citations and
uthorcitations; 7) there was negligible participation by female authors; 8) private organizations played a lead role in terms of author affiliation; and 9) there was a lack of leadership of regional authors when conducting research with several co-authors.