The evolution of the intellectual structure of operations management—1980–2006: A citation/co‐citation analysis
通过分析三大运营管理期刊的引用和共引数据，揭示了1980-2006年间该领域知识结构的演变，发现研究从战术性话题转向战略性宏观话题，并识别出12个主要知识群。
Abstract Citation analysis combined with a network analysis of co‐citation data from three major operations management (OM) journals is used to reveal the evolution of the intellectual structure of the OM field between 1980 and 2006. This spans the entire time since the beginning of research journals specific to the field. Employing a bibliometric citation/co‐citation analysis to investigate the foundations of the discipline enables a robust, quantitative approach to uncovering the evolution of research in OM. The study finds that the intellectual structure of the field made statistically significant changes between the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s and evolved from a pre‐occupation with narrow, tactical topics toward more strategic, macrotopics, including new research methods and techniques. A factor analysis identifies the 12 top knowledge groups in the field and how they change over the decades. Illustrations of the structure of the co‐citations representing the field are generated from a spring‐embedded algorithm that is an improvement over the standard multi‐dimensional scaling (MDS) approach to illustrating the knowledge groups.