Implementation of Knowledge Management in Intelligence Agencies: a VOSviewer bibliometric analysis

Abstract

This article is based on a literature review regarding the possible connections between knowledge management and intelligence domain. Although intelligence has got, over time, a large variety of interpretations, such as business intelligence, competitive intelligence or national security intelligence, in this research the term intelligence is used to describe the knowledge required by the decision makers and leaders of a country in order to act for achieving the social, economic, political and military stability. The methodology used for conducting this research is based on the capabilities of the specialized software VOSviewer, respectively the bibliometric analysis with the co-occurrence of certain keywords, which emphasizes the correlation of certain fields. Also, the data needed for this research was exported from Web of science core collection and Scopus, the two largest bibliographic databases in the world. The results showed that the knowledge management and intelligence domain were not researched together.

Keywords

• knowledge management
• intelligence
• intelligence structures
• intelligence organizations
• bibliometric analysis