A Bibliometrics Analysis of Management Control System

Abstract

This article examines the leading publications from 1970 to 2021, focusing on the extent and impact of
management control systems. The bibliometric analysis provides information about the publication trends
of articles, key authors, cited references, institutions, and countries, as the field's scopes and impacts.
Additionally, this paper discusses the Management control system's knowledge structure, including
prominent themes, co-citations, and bibliographic networks. Bibliographic data were collected from
articles published between 1970 and 2021 from the Scopus database on July 9th, 2021. The bibliographic
information for 743 documents was analyzed using an open-source analysis tool. It specifically used the
bibliometrics package in the R programming language and VOS viewer. These tools generated graphical
representations of bibliographic data based on their co-occurrence, co-citation, and coupling. The
findings indicate that the journal is growing its publication volume and reputation in the field, with 743
research articles indexed by Scopus to date. The study also provides a comprehensive understanding of
past trends and forecasts a journal's future direction