Abstract
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.
Highlights
The intellectual production in the field of business, management and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) during the past 20 years has been impressive (Cortés-Sánchez 2018a)
Reframing the query to documents with innovation as a keyword in BMA in LATAM between 1996 and 2018, + 1300 documents were found to be indexed in Scopus. This amplifies journal coverage (Scopus) (2018)
The research question guiding this study is: which are the bibliometric properties of the field of innovation in BMA in LATAM in terms of output and impact by countries, institutions and authors, and related topics in the last 30 years? the objective of this paper was to elaborate an outlook of the field of innovation in BMA in LATAM based on a sample of + 1300 documents indexed in Scopus from 1983 to 2018
Summary
The intellectual production in the field of business, management and accounting (BMA) in Latin America (LATAM) during the past 20 years has been impressive (Cortés-Sánchez 2018a). Reframing the query to documents with innovation as a keyword in BMA in LATAM between 1996 and 2018, + 1300 documents were found to be indexed in Scopus (2018). To navigate this amount of digital content, it is pertinent to use bibliometrics appraisal to assess document production and impact by authors, institutions, and countries, and the mutual influence between disciplines and the social capital of scholars (Zupic and Čater 2015). The research question guiding this study is: which are the bibliometric properties of the field of innovation in BMA in LATAM in terms of output and impact (citations) by countries, institutions and authors, and related topics in the last 30 years? The research question guiding this study is: which are the bibliometric properties of the field of innovation in BMA in LATAM in terms of output and impact (citations) by countries, institutions and authors, and related topics in the last 30 years? the objective of this paper was to elaborate an outlook of the field of innovation in BMA in LATAM based on a sample of + 1300 documents indexed in Scopus from 1983 to 2018
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