A Bibliometric Analysis of International Competitiveness (1983–2017)

María de las Mercedes Capobianco-Uriarte, María del Pilar Casado-Belmonte, Gema María Marín-Carrillo and Eduardo Terán-Yépez
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María de las Mercedes Capobianco-Uriarte: Department of Economics and Business, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
María del Pilar Casado-Belmonte: Department of Economics and Business, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Gema María Marín-Carrillo: Department of Economics and Business, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain
Eduardo Terán-Yépez: Department of Economics and Business, University of Almería, 04120 Almería, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-22

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to determine the current state of scientific production regarding “competitiveness” in the international context through a bibliometric analysis. This study presents a review of 2293 documents published about competitiveness in the international context from the Scopus database (1983–2017). Two different processing software applications were used, Vosviewer and Scimat. Although very recent bibliometric analyses of the topic exist, the methodology applied in the search term is restricted due to the separate use of a single search combination “national competitiveness” or “international competitiveness”. For this work, three combinations of words with logical operators were used, TITLE-ABS-KEY (“international competitiveness”) OR (“national competitiveness”) OR (“export competitiveness”), thus managing to span the concept of competitiveness in the international context in a broader sense. Our results show that competitive research is in a period of high production. The most productive authors and journals are not the most cited on competitiveness. Only three countries stand out with the largest scientific production about this topic. The trend of the most recent research points to knowledge areas in environmental sciences. The most researched geographical areas in international competitiveness encompass the whole world and especially Southeast Asia.

Keywords: international competitiveness; national competitiveness; export competitiveness; Scopus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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