Exploring the archive of RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas (1961 - 2016) in the light of bibliometrics, text mining, social network and geoanalysis

This article examined more than five decades of the Revista de Administração de Empresas (Journal of Business Administration [RAE]), between 1961 and 2016, through accessing documents made available on the internet in the electronic repository of periodicals and magazines of the Biblioteca Digital da Fundação Getulio Vargas-Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (Digital Library of the Getulio Vargas Foundation-School of Business Administration of São Paulo), which follows the Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) of interoperability between digital repositories. A total of 2,381 documents published in the journal (1,422 articles, 217 editorials, 62 opinion articles, and 680 reviews) were collected through an automated process and later analyzed using techniques such as bibliometrics, text mining, social networking, and geo-analysis. This study enables understanding of the path that the RAE journal has followed throughout its existence including 22 different management periods, the increase of authorship within its publications during 14 time intervals, the most frequent and important terms and keywords appearing in its published documents, and the formation of co-authoring networks of researchers who contribute to the development of the Administration science in the Country.

KEYWORDS
Scientific journal RAE; bibliometric analysis; text mining; social network analysis; geo-analysis