Bibliometric mapping of the Revista Nacional de Administración (UNED, Costa Rica), 2010-2025

 

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Upphovsman: Torres-Vindas, Javier Antonio
Materialtyp: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Utgivningstid:2026
Beskrivning:Introduction. Ibero-American university journals function as decisive platforms for consolidating administrative sciences in the region, yet they remain scarcely mapped through systematic bibliometric studies. Objective. To analyze the scientific output of the Revista Nacional de Administración (RNA) at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia of Costa Rica between 2010 and 2025, identifying its thematic structure, diachronic descriptor evolution and authorship patterns across fifteen years of uninterrupted publication. Method. A descriptive-relational bibliometric design was applied, complemented by a scoping review over 272 articles. Some 1,279 keyword instances were grouped through lexical co-occurrence into eight thematic clusters. Temporal trajectory was examined by absolute logarithmic values and a relative index with five-year baseline 2010-2015 = 100, alongside authorship, national affiliation and methodological typology. Results. Production unfolds across three uninterrupted quinquennia: 103 articles (2010-2015), 80 (2016-2020), 89 (2021-2025). Three clusters show positive net balance (human talent 118; innovation and AI 114; methodology-audit 105) against five contractions, with territorial development experiencing the steepest decline (40). Costa Rican exclusive authorship reaches 62.5 %, multinational co-authorship remains marginal (6.2 %), and the last quinquennium shows a clear turn toward mixed designs. Conclusion. RNA evidences a recomposition of its research agenda toward human-organizational and technological axes, retains the primacy of methodological-legal approaches as transversal scaffolding, and preserves geographical fragmentation that can be addressed through deliberate intraregional cooperation strategies.
Land:Portal de Revistas UNED
Organisation:Universidad Estatal a Distancia
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNED
OAI Identifier:oai:revistas.uned.ac.cr:article/6706
Länkar:https://revistas.uned.ac.cr/index.php/index/article/view/6706
Nyckelord:Producción científica
coocurrencia de palabras clave
análisis cienciométrico
revistas iberoamericanas
mapeo del conocimiento
Scientific production
keyword co-occurrence
scientometric analysis
Ibero-American journals
knowledge mapping
Produção científica
coocorrência de palavras-chave
análise cienciométrica
revistas ibero-americanas
mapeamento do conhecimento
Production scientifique
cooccurrence de mots-clés
analyse scientométrique
revues ibéro-américaines
cartographie des connaissances