Affiliations: [a] Facultad de Contaduría y Ciencias Administrativas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, México | [b] Department of Management Control and Information Systems, School of Economics and Business, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
| [c] School of Information, Systems and Modelling, University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia
| [d] Facultad de Economia, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, México | [e] Facultat d’Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
| [f] Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author. Victor G. Alfaro-García, Facultad de Contaduría y Ciencias Administrativas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás
de Hidalgo, Morelia, México. E-mail: victor.alfaro@umich.mx.
Abstract: This paper presents the results of a citation analysis focusing on the universities and countries represented by publications in 22 highly oriented fuzzy research journals using bibliometric techniques. Bibliometric studies have recently gained significant relevance, this fact is mainly due to the flexibility and dynamism that new information technologies provide. In our case, the structured gathered materials are thoroughly refined and offer a wide view of the influence that the selected journals have on territories and institutions around the globe. The results show the clear influence of countries located in the Asian continent and the high impact of institutions in Spain, the United States of America and China. This study sheds light on the visualization of the citation scope of these highly oriented fuzzy research journals with the aim of finding possible common ground for synergy and collaboration.
Keywords: Bibliometrics, fuzzy research, citation analyses, universities, countries
