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Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence

Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence is a research topic within Strategy and Management. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact and practices of competitive intelligence, focusing on information management, market analysis, strategic decision making, knowledge creation, and organizational resilience. It delves into topics such as environmental scanning, data mining, and the role of competitive intelligence in shaping business strategy and market competitiveness.

  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Information Management
  • Market Analysis
  • Strategic Decision Making
  • Knowledge Creation
  • Business Strategy
  • Environmental Scanning
  • Market Intelligence
  • Data Mining
  • Organizational Resilience
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence

Which countries lead Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (332 and 206 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 332 works
  2. 2 United States 206 works
  3. 3 France 104 works
  4. 4 China 73 works
  5. 5 India 61 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 55 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 48 works
  8. 8 Iran 45 works
  9. 9 Spain 38 works
  10. 10 Morocco 37 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Brazil: 33.2%United States: 20.6%France: 10.4%China: 7.3%6 others listed: 28.4%33%largest
Brazil332 · 33.2%United States206 · 20.6%France104 · 10.4%China73 · 7.3%6 others listed284 · 28.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence research, followed by Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 17 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 17 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 14 works
  5. 5 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 12 works
  6. 6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 9 works
  7. 7 Universidade Presbiteriana MackenzieBrazil 9 works
  8. 8 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 8 works
  9. 9 Intel (United States)United States 8 works
  10. 10 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence include Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Michael E. Porter.

  1. 1 Kathleen M. Eisenhardt United States 169k citations
  2. 2 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence?

The most cited paper in Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence is "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output" (J. E. Hirsch, 2005), with 11,729 citations. Next come "Review : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2" (10,112) and "Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design" (9,740).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output J. E. Hirsch · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 7 Nov 2005 11,729
2 Review : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2 Maryam Alavi, Dorothy E. Leidner · MIS Quarterly Mar 2001 10,112
3 Organizational Information Requirements, Media Richness and Structural Design Richard L. Daft, Robert H. Lengel · Management Science May 1986 9,740
4 Organizational Learning Barbara Levitt, James G. March · Annual Review of Sociology Aug 1988 6,162
5 Of strategies, deliberate and emergent Henry Mintzberg, James A. Waters · Strategic Management Journal Jul 1985 4,560
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence research done?

The largest centres of Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Paris (France) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brasília, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 64 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 45 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 29 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 22 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 21 works
  6. 6 Belo HorizonteBrazil 21 works
  7. 7 FlorianópolisBrazil 20 works
  8. 8 LisbonPortugal 19 works
  9. 9 BucharestRomania 19 works
  10. 10 AmmanJordan 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrasíliaBR · 22.1 works9.6×
  2. Belo HorizonteBR · 21.2 works9.1×
  3. Rio de JaneiroBR · 44.6 works8.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%15%mean 3.77143%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Indone…Islamic Azad Univers…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 54.71.1%16.7×17 +24.2%
2Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 48.52.0%6.5×17 -23.5%
3Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 47.00.2%12.1×14 +38.7%
4University of IndonesiaIndonesia 46.413.3%4.5×8 -
5Universidade de São PauloBrazil 40.35.0%4.0×12 -8.9%
6Universidade Presbiteriana MackenzieBrazil 32.04.2%57.9×9 -5.2%
7Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 30.60.6%10.5×9 +26.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence, country by country

Is Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Competitive and Knowledge Intelligence11.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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