Biemans W, Griffin A, Moenaert R "Twenty years of the Journal of product innovation management: History, participants, and knowledge stock and flows " JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 24 (3): 193-213 MAY 2007

[Eugene Garfield]

E-mail Addresses: w.g.biemans at rug.nl 

Title: Twenty years of the Journal of product innovation management: 
History, participants, and knowledge stock and flows 

Author(s): Biemans W (Biemans, Wim), Griffin A (Griffin, Abbie), Moenaert R 
(Moenaert, Rudy) 

Source: JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT 24 (3): 193-213 MAY 2007 

Document Type: Article 
Language: English 
Cited References: 20      Times Cited: 0      
  
Abstract: 
The Journal of Product Innovation Management (JPIM) serves as a marketplace 
for science-based, innovative ideas that are produced and consumed by 
scholars and businesspeople. Now that JPIM has existed for 20 years, two 
intriguing questions emerge: (1) How has the journal evolved over time in 
terms of knowledge stock, that is, what are the characteristics of the 
growing stock of knowledge published by JPIM over the years; and (2) how 
has the journal evolved in knowledge flow, that is, how is JPIM influenced 
by other scientific publications and what is its impact on other journals? 
In terms of knowledge stock, over 35% of the articles published over the 20 
years investigate processes and metrics for performance management. The 
next most frequently published area was strategy, planning, and decision 
making (20%), followed by customer and market research (17%). The dominant 
research method used was a cross-sectional large-sample survey, and the 
focus most usually is at the project level of the firm. The large majority 
of JPIM authors (60%) have a marketing background, with the remaining 40% 
representing numerous functional domains. Academics at all levels publish 
in JPIM, and though most authors hail from North America, the Dutch are a 
significant second group. JPIM was analyzed from a knowledge-flow 
perspective by looking at the scientific sources used by JPIM authors to 
develop their ideas and articles. To this end a bibliometric analysis was 
performed by analyzing all references in articles published in JPIM. During 
1984-2003 JPIM published 488 articles, containing 10,314 references to 
journals and 6,533 references to other sources. Some 20% of these 
references (2,020) were self-references to JPIM articles. The remaining 
8,294 journal references were to articles in 287 journals in the fields of 
management (25%), marketing (24%), and management of technology (14%). 
However, it should be pointed out that many domains were dominated by a 
limited number of journals. The second component of knowledge flow concerns 
the extent to which the ideas developed in JPIM are consumed by other 
authors. Again, bibliometric analysis was used to analyze data from the 
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) about citations to JPIM in other 
journals. For the period 1984-2005, the SSCI registered 7,773 citations to 
JPIM in 2,067 articles published in 278 journals (including the 2,020 self-
citations in JPIM). The functional areas most frequently citing JPIM are 
management of technology (25%), marketing (15%), management (14%), and 
operations management and management science (9%). Again, several domains 
were found to be dominated by a limited number of journals. At the level of 
individual journals the analysis shows a growing impact of JPIM on 
management of technology journals. The knowledge-flow analysis demonstrates 
how JPIM functions as a bridge between the knowledge from various domains 
and the body of knowledge on management of technology. It suggests a 
growing specialization of the field of technology innovation management, 
with JPIM being firmly entrenched as the acknowledged leading journal. 

Addresses: Biemans W (reprint author), Univ Groningen, Fac Management & 
Org, POB 800, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands
Univ Groningen, Fac Management & Org, NL-9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands
Univ Utah, David Eccles Sch Business, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
Tilburg Univ, TIAS Business Sch, Tilburg, Netherlands

E-mail Addresses: w.g.biemans at rug.nl 

Publisher: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 9600 GARSINGTON RD, OXFORD OX4 2DQ, OXON, 
ENGLAND 

Subject Category: Business; Engineering, Industrial; Management 
IDS Number: 160LV 

ISSN: 0737-6782 

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