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Knowledge Management and Sharing

Knowledge Management and Sharing is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of knowledge sharing in virtual communities, examining factors such as social capital, organizational climate, motivation, and trust. It delves into the role of social media, tacit knowledge, and intrinsic motivation in facilitating online collaboration and knowledge exchange.

  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Virtual Communities
  • Social Capital
  • Organizational Climate
  • Motivation
  • Trust
  • Social Media
  • Tacit Knowledge
  • Intrinsic Motivation
  • Online Collaboration
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Knowledge Management and Sharing

Which countries lead Knowledge Management and Sharing research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (842 and 743 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 842 works
  2. 2 United States 743 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 326 works
  4. 4 India 272 works
  5. 5 Germany 197 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 178 works
  7. 7 Malaysia 170 works
  8. 8 Pakistan 145 works
  9. 9 Iran 128 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 119 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.

China: 27.0%United States: 23.8%Indonesia: 10.4%India: 8.7%6 others listed: 30.1%27%largest
China842 · 27.0%United States743 · 23.8%Indonesia326 · 10.4%India272 · 8.7%6 others listed938 · 30.1%

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

Which institutions lead Knowledge Management and Sharing research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of South Africa publishes the most Knowledge Management and Sharing research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 32 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 30 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 29 works
  4. 4 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 21 works
  5. 5 Binus UniversityIndonesia 20 works
  6. 6 Tongji UniversityChina 15 works
  7. 7 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 14 works
  8. 8 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 14 works
  9. 9 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 13 works
  10. 10 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Knowledge Management and Sharing?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Knowledge Management and Sharing include Kai You Wang, Marko Sarstedt and Aziz Sheikh.

  1. 1 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  2. 2 Marko Sarstedt Germany 221k citations
  3. 3 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k citations
  4. 4 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  5. 5 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  6. 6 Jeffrey L. Cummings United States 176k 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 Knowledge Management and Sharing?

The most cited paper in Knowledge Management and Sharing is "Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology" (Fred D. Davis, 1989), with 67,727 citations. Next come "User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models" (25,784) and "Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media" (17,866).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology Fred D. Davis · MIS Quarterly Sep 1989 67,727
2 User Acceptance of Computer Technology: A Comparison of Two Theoretical Models Fred D. Davis, Richard P. Bagozzi, Paul R. Warshaw · Management Science Aug 1989 25,784
3 Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media Andreas Kaplan, Michael Haenlein · Business Horizons Open access 14 Oct 2009 17,866
4 Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage Janine Nahapiet, Sumantra Ghoshal · Academy of Management Review Apr 1998 13,833
5 Review : Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2 Maryam Alavi, Dorothy E. Leidner · MIS Quarterly Mar 2001 10,112
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Knowledge Management and Sharing research done?

The largest centres of Knowledge Management and Sharing research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tehran (Iran) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shah Alam and Pretoria.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 123 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 82 works
  3. 3 TehranIran 60 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 55 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 51 works
  6. 6 PretoriaSouth Africa 48 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 46 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 41 works
  9. 9 SeoulSouth Korea 40 works
  10. 10 BangkokThailand 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Shah AlamMY · 36.2 works7.9×
  2. PretoriaZA · 47.5 works7.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Knowledge Management and Sharing?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of the Punjab 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%10%20%mean 15.56%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Vrije Universiteit A…University of the Pu…Hong Kong Polytechni…Erasmus University R…
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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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 70.719.8%3.4×14 +15.9%
2Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 64.123.8%4.5×8 +103.9%
3University of the PunjabPakistan 58.020.4%6.8×9 +5.5%
4Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 57.814.0%3.4×8 +39.5%
5University of South AfricaSouth Africa 56.41.8%16.0×32 +44.7%
6Beijing Normal UniversityChina 55.617.7%3.9×14 +33.2%
7University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 55.017.3%4.3×12 +87.0%
8Renmin University of ChinaChina 53.319.7%7.2×11 +19.9%
9Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 50.42.3%8.4×30 +2.4%
10Shanghai UniversityChina 50.118.8%3.3×11 +31.9%

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 Knowledge Management and Sharing, country by country

Is Knowledge Management and Sharing research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Knowledge Management and Sharing as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Knowledge Management and Sharing0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Knowledge Management and Sharing 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%Knowledge Management and Sharing10.4% 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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