Investigating the academic trend of balanced scorecard from bibliometric approach

Abstract

Since Balanced Scorecard was introduced in 1992, there are a lot of research works based on it. This study tries to depict the literatures of Balanced Scorecard, such as distribution of journals, publication countries, and subject area. These data are retrieved from the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of ISI Web of knowledge database. The results will provide the distribution of literature, and depict the trends and feature of Balanced Scorecard research from Bibliometrics approach. Meanwhile, This study indentified the core journal of Balanced Scorecard through Bradford`s Law. © 2014 IEEE.