Aug 2026· Journal of Education Teaching and Social Studies· 0 citations
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Drawing on bibliometric records of Long March-related scholarly articles indexed in the CNKI database from 2011 to 2025, this paper identifies a three-stage developmental trajectory, demarcated by the pivotal years 2016 and 2021. Employing VOSviewer and CiteSpace for co-occurrence and co-citation analyses, we construct a comprehensive visual mapping of the knowledge structure and thematic contours characterizing this body of research. Empirical analyses generate three salient observations on Long‑March‑related scholarship. First, it features a distinct two‑tiered intellectual structure: foundational canonical historical themes (e.g., Mao ZD, the Zunyi Conference) dominated research in 2011‑2015, while contemporary agendas such as the Long March National Cultural Park and rural revitalization prevailed during 2021‑2025. Second, the field has undergone a paradigmatic shift from historical textual criticism and archival compilation toward policy exegesis and applied inquiry, moving from discipline‑driven historical scholarship to applied and cultural‑communication‑oriented research. Third, journals display functional stratification: core outlets prioritize theoretical elaboration and historical contextual reconstruction, whereas non‑core journals mainly publish practice‑centered and pedagogy‑focused studies on Long March culture. This study clarifies the evolutionary logic and disciplinary layout of Long March research, provides theoretical reference and practical implications for the innovative inheritance and international cross-cultural communication of Chinese Red Culture.
As the year 2026 marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army’s Long March, the Long March and its spiritual connotation have become core symbolic assets of Chinese Red Culture and vital vehicles for international cultural communication. Drawing on bibliometric data of Long March-themed publications collected from the CNKI database during 2011–2025, this paper divides the temporal evolution of existing studies into three stages, with 2016 and 2021 as key time nodes. Adopting VOSviewer and CiteSpace as bibliometric visualization tools, this study systematically delineates the intellectual structure of Long March research. The empirical results indicate that: (1) The academic landscape of Long March research exhibits a distinct two-tiered framework. The foundational tier is dominated by canonical historical topics during 2011–2015, represented by Mao Zedong and the Zunyi Conference, whereas the emergent tier features contemporary research priorities prevailing from 2011–2025, including the Long March National Cultural Park and Rural Revitalization; (2) The research paradigm has undergone a notable shift from traditional historical textual criticism and archival sorting to policy interpretation and practical application, reflecting a clear transition from disciplinary historical research to application-oriented and cultural communication research.(3) An evident functional division has taken shape among academic journals. Core journals prioritize theoretical elaboration and historical contextualization, while Non-Core Journals predominantly accommodate practice-oriented and educational research concerning Long March Culture. This study clarifies the evolutionary logic and disciplinary layout of Long March research, provides theoretical reference and practical implications for the innovative inheritance and international cross-cultural communication of Chinese Red Culture.
Mijia Chen, Wenjun Lu, Linda Zhang· Journal of Education and Cul...· 0 citations
Since the end of the Cold War, Joseph S. Nye’s concept of soft power has become a central analytical framework for understanding national attraction and non-coercive influence in international relations. Despite the rapid expansion of both theoretical and empirical research, the field still lacks systematic bibliometric evidence concerning its knowledge structure, thematic evolution, and patterns of scholarly collaboration. To address this gap, this study constructs a comprehensive bibliometric map of global soft power research based on 2,772 English-language social science articles indexed in the Scopus database from 1991 to 2025. Using VOSviewer and RStudio (Biblioshiny), the analysis examines publication trends, citation structures, country collaboration networks, author co-citation relationships, keyword co-occurrence patterns, and thematic evolution pathways. The findings indicate that soft power research experienced steady growth after 2005, followed by a pronounced acceleration after 2015. While the United States, China, and the United Kingdom remain the principal research hubs, Australia emerges as an important cross-regional bridge, suggesting a shift toward a more multi-center structure of knowledge production. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic evolution further reveal a transition from early concept-oriented debates to a more diversified and policy-focused research agenda. In addition, soft power is increasingly conceptualized as an observable and comparable form of international influence, with growing attention to practical domains such as higher education cooperation, sports diplomacy, digital diplomacy, vaccine diplomacy, and the Belt and Road Initiative. Overall, this study systematically maps the intellectual structure and emerging frontiers of global soft power research, highlighting the rise of multipolar soft power and a shift toward policy-oriented and interdisciplinary inquiry, while providing a bibliometric foundation for developing measurable soft power assessment frameworks.
Na Wang, M. Ahmad· Multidisciplinary Reviews· 0 citations
Research at the intersection of digital technologies and business model innovation (BMI) has expanded rapidly since the mid-2010s, yet its intellectual architecture—the conceptual foundations, influential scholars, citation anchors, and thematic clusters that give it coherence—remains poorly charted. Narrative and systematic reviews have proven insufficient to map a field now generating more than 260 peer-reviewed publications per year across at least twenty-seven disciplinary categories. This paper addresses that gap by conducting a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of 1,707 Scopus-indexed journal articles published between 2004 and early 2026. Drawing on publication trend analysis, author and institutional productivity mapping, citation and co-citation analysis, and keyword co-occurrence examination—all executed through the Biblioshiny interface of R Studio—we delineate four distinct developmental epochs that trace the field's evolution from pre-paradigmatic exploration to consolidation. Citation analysis identifies a compact set of foundational texts, anchored by Verhoef et al. (2021), Chesbrough (2010), and Ghobakhloo (2020), that continue to organise scholarly discourse across sub-fields. Keyword analysis reveals business model innovation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and sustainability as the field's dominant conceptual pillars, while also exposing theoretical fault lines at the boundaries of these clusters. The findings offer an empirically grounded road map for future research and establish a replicable methodological benchmark for ongoing monitoring of this rapidly evolving domain.
Milan Patel, Prathyaksh Janardhanan· International Journal For Mu...· 0 citations
This paper aims to examine how publication temporality and citation impact jointly inform the contemporary evolution of organisational capability within the resource-based view (RBV) literature between 2021 and 2025. This study clarifies how theoretical thinking about firm resources has shifted towards novel forms of value-creating organisational capabilities and identifies the consolidation of theoretical themes and future research directions within the field.
This study analyses 4,232 peer-reviewed articles published between 2021 and 2025, a period that accounts for nearly 50% of all RBV literature published since 1984. This study uses a quantitative bibliometric and science-mapping methodology, including semantic co-occurrence analysis of author keywords, with overlay and density visualisations in VOSviewer. Overlay maps highlight the temporal relevance of organisational capability constructs, and density maps reveal their structural and conceptual influence. The dual-lens approach provides a diagnostic framework for interpreting the contemporary trajectory of RBV-based organisational research.
The findings reveal a structural shift in how RBV scholarship conceptualises organisational capability, through three distinct evolutionary trajectories. Firstly, core renewal, where digital transformation and artificial intelligence fuse with dynamic capabilities to create high-impact internal capability routines. Secondly, emergent experimentation, in which constructs such as entrepreneurship, early-stage resource bootstrapping and blockchain form exploration frontiers. Thirdly, stable influence, in which environmental performance, the natural resource-based view and corporate social responsibility are broadly accepted as baseline pillars. This paper demonstrates that there is an active reconfiguration of traditional resource logic within the RBV field, with organisational capabilities moving along divergent theoretical trajectories.
This study offers a diagnostic framework for positioning future RBV research within organisational theory. It delineates which capability constructs are undergoing renewal, which peripheral themes merit further development and which established organisational vocabularies continue to anchor the field. The dual-lens approach reveals where visibility is rising, but citation influence lags, guiding scholars in prioritising constructs for theoretical extension, consolidation and empirical testing.
For strategists and corporate leaders, the findings reframe how competitive advantage is created and sustained in volatile, unpredictable environments. Instead of relying on static, capital-heavy physical asset stocks, strategic advantage requires dynamic resource orchestration – coalescing flexible digital capabilities, cross-border relational networks and alliances and ecological stewardship into hard-to-imitate organisational routines that drive resilient value creation.
The findings indicate that contemporary RBV scholarship increasingly aligns firm capability building with societal demands for environmental sustainability, ethical governance and digital inclusion. The results categorise transient, emergent and enduring capability practices – including those within resource-constrained contexts – and provide policymakers with actionable insights to inform initiatives aimed at organisational resilience and sustainable economic development.
To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this paper provides the first quantitative dual-lens structural and thematic synthesis of contemporary RBV literature published between 2021 and 2025 – a pivotal period accounting for nearly 50% of all RBV publications and 16% of all RBV citations since 1984. It introduces an integrative diagnostic framework that analyses the evolving theoretical identity of a leading strategic management theory. This study operationalises the divergence between publication recency and citation authority and advances a novel theoretical typology – core renewal, emergent experimentation and stable influence – that reveals how traditional firm resource logic has been actively reconfigured across the contemporary literature in response to technological disruptions, regulatory mandates and global shocks.
Shankar T. Naskar, José M. Merigó· The International Journal of...· 0 citations
The Scopus-based core corpus consists of 704 English-language journal articles from 1966 to 2025, and this study analyzes the intellectual foundations, thematic evolution, and international collaboration structure of this research field. Since the records were retrieved on 22 October 2025, the 2025 data are analyzed as partial-year data rather than as a complete year. Bibliometric procedures included bibliographic description, thematic mapping, thematic evolution, document co-citation, author keyword co-occurrence, and country co-authorship networks, using association-strength normalization and performed with Biblioshiny and VOSviewer. A search-completeness test with the expanded query ("abusive supervision" and "despotic leadership") yielded 876 records, of which 695 matched the core corpus, and 181 were retained as a sensitivity set. The results reveal that publications were sparse for several decades, but after 2018 there was a significant rise in publications. Venue influence is concentrated in a small interdisciplinary core, with The Leadership Quarterly and Journal of Business Ethics providing theory and synthesis, and the Journal of Nursing Management and Frontiers in Psychology reflecting more recent applied diffusion. Document co-citation reveals a tripartite intellectual base comprising definitional accounts, exchange and justice mechanisms, and measurement or personality-trait traditions. Keyword structures identify three current fronts: abusive and exploitative mechanisms, dark-trait and ethics-oriented research, and healthcare-oriented studies of bullying, stress, and culture. Country co-authorship indicates a transatlantic and Asia-Pacific core with recent regional diversification. Overall, the field shows increasing convergence among fragmented labels while retaining important conceptual distinctions.
Alum Kusumah, Sulistyandari, Cheng-Wen Lee· Asian Journal of Interdiscip...· 0 citations
Scholarship on civil society is dispersed across disciplines, journals, and regional traditions, which makes the field difficult to see as a whole. The objective of this study is to map trends, developments, and structures in civil society research globally during the period 2019–2024. A bibliometric approach was used to analyze 2,528 articles from the Scopus database. A thorough analysis employing Biblioshiny and VOSviewer has been conducted, revealing active research domains with considerable citation impact. Furthermore, the analysis discloses annual output fluctuations that exhibit responsiveness to the global context. The results indicate the preeminence of productivity from the Global North, though there is an increasing trend of participation from the Global South, accompanied by intricate citation impact patterns. Thematically, research focuses on democracy, human rights, and governance, while adapting to challenges such as authoritarianism and the pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with a focus on NGOs and collective action. International collaboration (19.42%) and intellectual connectivity are extensive, albeit centered on North-North and North-South networks. This comprehensive mapping underscores the relevance of civil society and highlights the need for efforts to promote more inclusive collaboration and deeper contextual research.
Efraim Semuel Nalle, Sugito· SN Social Sciences· 0 citations
