Abstract

Management Decision (MD) was first published on January 1st of 1967, making it the oldest and longest-running scholarly publication focused specifically on the area of management studies. The purpose of this article is to investigate the publication trends across the Journal’s history and its evolution through bibliometric analyses. In particular, we used the Scopus database to evaluate performance of MD and provide a visual map of MD based on the bibliographic data collected. We also identified the most common keywords used in the journal to identify the streams of research covered so far in MD. The results show a consistent increase in publications and citations, demonstrating MD’s growing stature as a leading academic outlet specific to advancing knowledge in the area of management studies. Insights from this article can be useful to past, current and future contributors and readers of MD to understand where the research in the journal came from and where it could be going.

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