Strategic planning research through fifty years of long range planning: A bibliometric overview

Hugo Baier-Fuentes,José Merigó,Francisco Martínez-López,Luis Miranda

doi:10.5937/straman2101003b

Abstract

Long Range Planning (LRP) is the first journal focused on strategic planning. It was created in 1968 by the Long Range Planning Society, and it celebrated its 50 th anniversary in 2018. This event led to the presentation of a complete bibliometric study aimed at identifying the most significant results that occurred in the journal during this period. For this purpose, bibliometric data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database, and two bibliometric approaches were used to analyze the journal's publications: a performance analysis and a graphical mapping of the literature. The first of these uses a wide range of productivity and influence indicators that include the number of publications and citations, the h-index, and citations by paper, among others. The second approach uses the VOSviewer software to deliver a graphical view of the various intellectual connections within LRP. The results of both bibliometric approaches are consistent and confirm LRP as a leading journal in strategic planning and management, with increasing participation of authors and universities from countries around the world.

Highlights

Long Range Planning (LRP hereafter), established in 1968, is a pioneering journal in the field of strategic management
In order to analyze all the literature published in the journal thoroughly, this study develops both bibliometric approaches, i.e., a performance analysis and a science mapping of all LRP bibliographic records
To analyze the number of publications and the citation structure of LRP, Table 1 shows the number of articles published in the journal annually as well as the total number of citations received by them

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Long Range Planning (LRP hereafter), established in 1968, is a pioneering journal in the field of strategic management. This mission is to help improve the understanding of strategic planning systems and continue to develop the various strategic practices used by the actors who contribute to the strategy of their countries, regions or organizations (Laamanen, 2017). During its 50 years in existence, LRP has covered different topics at the intersection of strategic management across diverse disciplines, publishing articles by the best academics and professionals (Stiles, 2000). This has enabled LRP to build a solid reputation and lead academic research in the Fuentes et al Strategic planning research through fifty years of Long Range Planning: a bibliometric overview field of strategic management. LRP currently has an impact factor of 3.221 and is among the top 50 Management journals in the Social Science Citation Index

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