The intellectual core and impact of the knowledge management academic discipline

Journal of Knowledge Management

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 137-155

  Serenko, Alexander ^a   Bontis, Nick ^b  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic research; Books; Citation analysis; Journals; Knowledge management; Languages; Reference discipline; Relevance; Research work; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874151293     PISSN: 13673270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13673271311300840     Document Type: Review

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