International academic production in operations management: a bibliometric study

Abstract

This article aims to examine the academic production about Operations Management in articles published in international journals indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge. The research evaluates publications from 2002 to 2012 and uses bibliometric techniques to investigate questions like: what are the authors who have most publications on the subject, what are the years, countries and journals in which the articles were published and, also, the presentation of the most co-cited authors in the references. In total the study verified 110 articles and 4545 references to the term Operations Management, 6644 articles and 274 references to the term Production Management and 49 articles and 1250 references to the term Manufacturing Management. The research results show that (a) there isn't a concentration of authors who have published several articles about the subjects; (b) the years with the largest number of publications are 2007 and 2010, totaling 24,48 % of the total analyzed; (c) the United States is the country which has the greatest number of publications, with 26,33% of all analyzed articles; (d) Williamson (1975), Dyer and Singh (1998), Granovetter (1985) and Uzzi (1997) were identified as the most co-cited authors in the references.