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Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away

Research in the field of innovation in business, management, and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) has surpassed all expectations of its net output. Yet this digital tide suggests several concerns regarding its impact and both its established and emergent research topics at the individual, i...

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Autor Principal: Cortés-Sánchez, Julián David
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2019
Materias:
Bibliometrics
Innovation
Latin America
management and accounting
Business
Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23291
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03201-0
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spelling ir-10336-232912021-06-11T03:48:07Z Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away Cortés-Sánchez, Julián David Bibliometrics Innovation Latin America management and accounting Business Research in the field of innovation in business, management, and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) has surpassed all expectations of its net output. Yet this digital tide suggests several concerns regarding its impact and both its established and emergent research topics at the individual, institutional, and country level. In this paper, an outlook of the field was developed based on a sample of + 1300 documents indexed in Scopus from 1983 to 2018. Public institutions in Brazil and Colombia have been both the most cited and productive in the region. Nevertheless, documents lead by non-LATAM authors showed significant differences in both paper citations and journals’ h-index compared to leading authors from LATAM. Three of the major concerns raised were, first, a growing inter-regional gap among LATAM countries. Second, the intensive use of a journal with predatory features over the last 5 years, therefore cites/document measure is at the lowest point of the past 17 years. And third, the delay of recently emergent topics in the region that have been in the literature for more than a decade, while frontier topics for BMA innovation such as those of Industry 4.0 remain unnoticed. © 2019, The Author(s). 2019 2020-05-26T00:00:57Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 15882861 01389130 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23291 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03201-0 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Springer Netherlands instname:Universidad del Rosario reponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
institution EdocUR - Universidad del Rosario
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language Inglés (English)
topic Bibliometrics
Innovation
Latin America
management and accounting
Business
spellingShingle Bibliometrics
Innovation
Latin America
management and accounting
Business
Cortés-Sánchez, Julián David
Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
description Research in the field of innovation in business, management, and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) has surpassed all expectations of its net output. Yet this digital tide suggests several concerns regarding its impact and both its established and emergent research topics at the individual, institutional, and country level. In this paper, an outlook of the field was developed based on a sample of + 1300 documents indexed in Scopus from 1983 to 2018. Public institutions in Brazil and Colombia have been both the most cited and productive in the region. Nevertheless, documents lead by non-LATAM authors showed significant differences in both paper citations and journals’ h-index compared to leading authors from LATAM. Three of the major concerns raised were, first, a growing inter-regional gap among LATAM countries. Second, the intensive use of a journal with predatory features over the last 5 years, therefore cites/document measure is at the lowest point of the past 17 years. And third, the delay of recently emergent topics in the region that have been in the literature for more than a decade, while frontier topics for BMA innovation such as those of Industry 4.0 remain unnoticed. © 2019, The Author(s).
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author Cortés-Sánchez, Julián David
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title Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
title_short Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
title_full Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
title_fullStr Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
title_full_unstemmed Innovation in Latin America through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
title_sort innovation in latin america through the lens of bibliometrics: crammed and fading away
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url https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23291
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-019-03201-0
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