Knowledge management in academic libraries: bibliometric study on the Web of Science

A biblionnetric study was carried out on the works published about Knowledge Management in University Libraries in the period from 2002 to 2020 in the Web of Science database. The methodology in the application of biblionnetric analysis using the model of Marschner, Avila and Sommer (2016) with adaptations. A literature review was made on the subject, showing that there is only the study by De Benn and Reinisch (2014) that does a biometric analysis on KM in BUs. 48 works were recovered, of which only 33 were analyzed. Only those belonging to the area of Information Science and Library Science were considered. The results showed the most productive years between 2017 and 2019. The types of documents are articles, Early access and works in events, of which articles make up the majority. The journal with the highest number of publications is the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. The most productive authors are: Ugwu, De Benn, Ekere and Rossi. The institutions with the most publications are: University of South Africa, University of Nigeria and Federal University of Santa Catarina. The countries with the largest number of publications are: South Africa, India, Nigeria, Brazil, Pakistan and Spain. Funding agencies are: Delta State University, ICSSR New Delhi, Ministry of Science and Innovation of The Government of Spain and University of Zululand. The scientific production in the database is published in English, Portuguese and Spanish, but the main language is English. It is concluded that studies on Knowledge Management in University Libraries are gradually growing and are recent at the base Web of Science.