Health knowledge management: Longitudinal analysis of the period from 1998 to 2018

Abstract

Knowledge management is a complex process and closely related to the communication processes in organizations (Smoliar, 2003; Theunissen, 2004). Thus, this study's general goal: is to analyse the characteristics of the publications related to the theme: Knowledge Management in Health Care in the years of 1962 to 2018, in the Web of Science and Scopus, at the theoretical and empirical debates. The results of the survey showed that the year with the highest number of publications was 2012 (35) in Scopus and 2015 (17) in the Web of Science. The institution that stood out the most, in both databases, in terms of publications related to Knowledge Management in Health Care was the Coventry University, located in the UK with 21 publications in Scopus and 3 articles published in the Web of Science. Thus, it is suggested for future studies to expand the research of articles on the themes to other data bases, as well as national and international scientific events.