Exploring social management: an international bibliometric review of varied perspectives

Abstract

Within the field of administration the terminology social management has been used in different ways. In order to verify the different uses for the term and the international strength of the concept of social management developed by the Brazilian, a worldwide bibliometric analysis was done. As for methodology, it is worth mentioning that the database used was taken from the Web of Science website and the Software CiteSpace was utilized. In regards to results, it was possible to identify several Brazilian researchers in the list of authors with the most publications and some Brazilian papers in the list of most cited works. However the Chinese dominate the quantity by country and different views of the social management term could be found among the most cited articles.