Scientometric Analysis of Brand Personality

Gustavo Vicencio-Ríos, Andrés Rubio (), Luis Araya-Castillo and Hugo Moraga-Flores
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Gustavo Vicencio-Ríos: Diego Portales University, Santiago 8370179, Chile
Andrés Rubio: Faculty of Economics and Business, Andres Bello University, Santiago 7520404, Chile
Luis Araya-Castillo: Facultad de Ingeniería y Empresa, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago 8330225, Chile
Hugo Moraga-Flores: Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción 4070420, Chile

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-19

Abstract: The main focus of brand personality is the emotional bond that the consumer establishes with the product or service on offer and the strategies that are developed to strengthen such bond. This concept has received increasing attention and both its study and its applications have escaped the field where it initially originated: marketing. Despite the above, no studies have been carried out that analyze the scientific production trends associated with it. This prevents us from knowing what state of scientific development the concept is in and how you project its lines of development, both at the research and applied levels. The aim of this paper is a presentation of the literature on the subject of brand personality using a scientometric analysis based on the Web of Science database. The main results reveal that 531 papers were identified in the period between 1975 and 2019, with an exponential growth in terms of production and a constant growth in terms of number of quotations, with Aaker being the most cited author and Davies the most productive. An analysis was also carried out on the co-authorship clusters for scientific production, the institutions of affiliation, and the countries where the authors come from, as well as the main journals where this scientific production is disseminated. The conclusion is that brand personality has taken off in the past few decades in different areas of knowledge allowing to go beyond the marketing perspective in order to encompass the production of knowledge in different disciplines such as business, psychology, services, communication, education, and social sciences in general.

Keywords: Brand Personality; Scientometrics; Web of Science; VOSviewer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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