Three Decades of Discourse on Science, Technology and Innovation in National Innovation System: A Bibliometric Analysis (1990 – 2020)

Abstract

[Figure: see text]Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) topic has become one of the most debatable discourses in the international journals. In the Scopus database, 24,034 documents were recorded as the results when navigating the publications under the STI theme. However, this study limits the bibliometric analysis of the STI topics within the National Innovation System (NIS) framework. In addition, the limitation of the time period is from 1990 to 2020. This study utilizes the literature analysis sourced from the Scopus database and the visualization was performed by utilizing VOSviewer version 1.6.17. The results indicate that 1) STI within the NIS framework has presented a growing topic which becomes the concern to researchers worldwide since the 1990s (44 publications) increasing to 1.314 publications (total publications) until the end of 2020; 2) the United States is regarded as the country of origin for the author’s most published affiliation (171 articles); 3) the United Kingdom has demonstrated better paper quality, which is 50.22, based on total citations to total paper; 4) Universitetet i Oslo is recorded as the institution with the most publications; 5) approximately 2,324 authors, either individual or in group are recorded in publishing papers for the last three decades; 6) Wonglimpiyarat, J. of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, United States, is regarded as the most productive author; 7) Research Policy has been referred as the journal publishing the most under this topic; and 8) approximately 44 publications are recorded in the 1990s, 345 are in the 2000s, and 925 are in the 2010s.

Keywords

• STI
• national Innovation System
• conceptual and theoretical mapping
• bibliometric analysis
• VOSviewer