Sandro Mendonça

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Sandro Mendonça is a scholar working on Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics and Management of Technology and Innovation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sandro Mendonça has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Strategy and Management, 17 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 10 papers in Management of Technology and Innovation. Recurrent topics in Sandro Mendonça's work include Innovation and Knowledge Management (12 papers), ICT Impact and Policies (7 papers) and Innovation Policy and R&D (6 papers). Sandro Mendonça is often cited by papers focused on Innovation and Knowledge Management (12 papers), ICT Impact and Policies (7 papers) and Innovation Policy and R&D (6 papers). Sandro Mendonça collaborates with scholars based in Portugal, United Kingdom and United States. Sandro Mendonça's co-authors include Ana de Jesús, Manuel Mira Godinho, Tiago Santos Pereira, Paula Antunes, Rui Santos, Miguel Piña e Cunha, João Caraça, Frank Ruff, Jari Kaivo‐oja and Bengt‐Åke Lundvall and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Cleaner Production and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Sandro Mendonça

54 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-innov... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Lost in Transition? Drivers and Barriers in the Eco-innovation Road to the Circular Economy
    2017 748 citations Sandro Mendonça et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sandro Mendonça Portugal 20 1.5k 799 615 419 339 59 2.5k
Romana Rauter Austria 15 1.6k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 376 0.6× 309 0.7× 351 1.0× 34 2.6k
Soumyadeb Chowdhury United Kingdom 22 1.7k 1.1× 931 1.2× 327 0.5× 230 0.5× 614 1.8× 58 3.3k
Assunta Di Vaio Italy 32 1.5k 1.0× 816 1.0× 569 0.9× 335 0.8× 701 2.1× 65 3.8k
Marcos Ferasso Portugal 22 846 0.6× 592 0.7× 429 0.7× 399 1.0× 169 0.5× 94 2.1k
Marcelo Nogueira Cortimiglia Brazil 24 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.3× 336 0.5× 404 1.0× 231 0.7× 50 2.4k
Wantao Yu United Kingdom 35 3.1k 2.1× 1.5k 1.8× 506 0.8× 281 0.7× 432 1.3× 59 4.3k
Janet Godsell United Kingdom 22 1.5k 1.0× 656 0.8× 312 0.5× 163 0.4× 335 1.0× 51 2.6k
Paul Hong United States 36 3.0k 2.0× 1000 1.3× 417 0.7× 509 1.2× 327 1.0× 144 4.8k
Jing Dai China 27 2.2k 1.4× 1.4k 1.8× 679 1.1× 229 0.5× 416 1.2× 77 3.3k
Zhiqiang Wang China 35 1.8k 1.2× 816 1.0× 333 0.5× 287 0.7× 192 0.6× 95 3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Sandro Mendonça

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sandro Mendonça

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sandro Mendonça

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sandro Mendonça. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sandro Mendonça based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sandro Mendonça. Sandro Mendonça is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2025). The “Network Society” moves in mysterious ways: 25 years in the reception of a core concept. Quantitative Science Studies. 6. 686–715.
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2025). The knowledge base of Big Tech: Research as a source of informational leadership by the dominant US digital platforms. Telecommunications Policy. 49(7). 102908–102908. 1 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro & A. Santos. (2025). The IPR of the beholder: the economics and strategy knowledge base of IPR, patents and trademarks. Management Review Quarterly.
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2024). State aid for broadband network deployment: National and subnational governance mechanisms, 2003–2023. Telecommunications Policy. 48(9). 102837–102837. 1 indexed citations
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Silva, José A., et al.. (2023). Reconfiguring the Battery Innovation Landscape. Foresight-Russia. 17(1). 34–50. 4 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2018). Knowledge-intensive consumer services. Understanding KICS in the innovative global health-care sector. Research Policy. 48(4). 968–982. 15 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2018). Modelling insurgent-incumbent dynamics: Vector autoregressions, multivariate Markov chains, and the nature of technological competition. Applied Economics Letters. 26(10). 843–849. 5 indexed citations
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Cardoso, Gustavo & Sandro Mendonça. (2012). Ecrãs em Rede. Televisão, tendências e prospectivas. 1 indexed citations
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Cardoso, Gustavo, et al.. (2010). The Politics of Open Access. The MIT Press eBooks. 317–321. 2 indexed citations
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Cardoso, Gustavo, et al.. (2010). World Wide Research: Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities. 1 indexed citations
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Cardoso, Gustavo, et al.. (2009). As políticas de Open Access: Res publica científica ou autogestão?. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 53–67. 1 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2009). Managing foresight in changing organisational settings: introducing new perspectives and practices. Technology Analysis and Strategic Management. 21(3). 285–289. 8 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro. (2008). Brave old world: Accounting for ‘high-tech’ knowledge in ‘low-tech’ industries. Research Policy. 38(3). 470–482. 79 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, Miguel Piña e Cunha, Frank Ruff, & Jari Kaivo‐oja. (2008). Venturing into the Wilderness. Long Range Planning. 42(1). 23–41. 39 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (2007). Inovação e Globalização: Estratégias para o Desenvolvimento Económico e Territorial. 1 indexed citations
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Grodal, Stine, et al.. (2005). Advances and Challenges in Innovation Studies. Journal of Economic Issues. 39(1). 91–121. 62 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro. (2005). Large Innovating Firms and Patent Management: Challenges for SMEs' Managers and IP Officials in Catching-up Economies. 1 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, Tiago Santos Pereira, & Manuel Mira Godinho. (2004). Trademarks as an indicator of innovation and industrial change. Research Policy. 33(9). 1385–1404. 332 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, Miguel Piña e Cunha, Jari Kaivo‐oja, & Frank Ruff. (2003). Wild Cards, Weak Signals and Organizational Improvisation. Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT). 11 indexed citations
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Mendonça, Sandro, et al.. (1988). Estudo preliminar de geomorfologia costeira na ilha de Santa Catarina: Daniela e Ponta das Canas, mun. Florianópolis-SC. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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