Strategic planning research through fifty years of Long Range Planning: a bibliometric overview

Long Range Planning (LRP) is the first journal focused on strategic planning. It was created in 1968 by theLong Range Planning Society, and it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. This event led to the presentationof a complete bibliometric study aimed at identifying the most significant results that occurred in the journalduring this period. For this purpose, bibliometric data were collected from the Web of Science Core Collectiondatabase, and two bibliometric approaches were used to analyze the journal's publications: a performanceanalysis and a graphical mapping of the literature. The first of these uses a wide range of productivity andinfluence indicators that include the number of publications and citations, the h-index, and citations by paper,among others. The second approach uses the VOSviewer software to deliver a graphical view of the variousintellectual connections within LRP. The results of both bibliometric approaches are consistent and confirmLRP as a leading journal in strategic planning and management, with increasing participation of authors anduniversities from countries around the world.