European retail journals: a bibliometric analysis

Citation

Findlay A & Sparks L (2002) European retail journals: a bibliometric analysis. International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management, 30 (8), pp. 373-382. https://doi.org/10.1108/09590550210435264

Abstract
The 1990s have seen a major expansion in both the interest in retailing as an academic research subject and in the availability of European retail academic journals. Using a bibliometric approach, this paper investigates the development of published academic retail research in these journals. It identifies different emphases within the retail journals and retail research. Overall, however, retailing is identified increasingly as a synthetic rather than an interdisciplinary subject. A gulf between the direction that European scholars and US scholars are following is considered.

Keywords
Journal publishing; Research measurement; Retailing

Journal
International Journal of Retail and Distribution Management: Volume 30, Issue 8

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