Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7391736 World Development 2018 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
Based on the theories of Michel Foucault, this paper studies the role and influence of academic journals in shaping the “contemporary development discourse” by means of identifying the main areas of research, the citation networks, and the most influential articles, countries and institutions. Our bibliometric analysis focuses in four “development” journals that are ranked in the Social Sciences Citation Index in the “subject category” of “planning and development”: World Development, Development and Change, Third World Quarterly and European Journal of Development Research. The analysis for the period 2000-2015 produces four main results:
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