Literature reviews using informetrics in emerging market research

Presenter: Dr Anton Klarin
Senior Lecturer in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business at Curtin's School of Management and Marketing

Abstract

The continuous growth of scientific publication at approximately 4% per year with the total number of citations growing by 5.6% early brings forth relevance of literature review studies that summarize previous research and offer research directions. Informetric research methods including bibliometric, scientometric, and webometric analyses are becoming increasingly prevalent in conducting literature review studies. The aim of this presentation is to introduce content co-occurrence analysis as a robust method to conduct systematic literature reviews. Content co-occurrence analysis selects frequently occurring terms from a body of text, calculates relationships through linkages of terms between each other, and maps these terms based on relatedness or co-occurrence into a set of research streams. A literature review study that utilizes content co-occurrence technique aims to collect a comprehensive dataset of publications related to a topic of interest, plot this research into a birds-eye view map of the topic with a set of research streams, which will then allow to identify gaps, networks, and relationships between disciplines and themes. This method is based on algorithms and thus is objective and reproducible allowing to deliver systems perspectives of topics that are of use to inter-disciplinary researchers and those requiring overviews of particular topics. The presentation discusses contributions of content-based analyses including offering taxonomies, typologies, comparisons, and theoretical development to constitute integrative literature reviews that are useful to emerging market research scholars.

Biography

Anton Klarin (PhD, The University of New South Wales) is due to commence as a Senior Lecturer in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business at Curtin's School of Management and Marketing. His research encompasses and has been published on the topics of strategic choices and sensemaking of emerging market firms (for example, in Journal of Management Inquiry), institutional environments in emerging markets, and interdisciplinary research using informetric methods (publications in Journal of Business Research, International Business Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, and other high impact outlets). He has also published a policy document on the Internet of Things, and received an Emerald Literati Award for Excellence. He has been chief investigator on 2 x Category 1 Strategic Policy Defence grants with Australia's leading experts in Cyber, Defence, and Computing. Anton's Field Weighted Citation Impact is 2.58.