A bibliographic analysis of the scholarly writings of Stephen Kobrin

Introduction
Stephen Kobrin’s publishing career spanned more than 45 years, with his first work being published in 1975 and his last published in 2021. Fittingly for a scholar who has made such an impact on the field of International Business, his first journal article was published in 1976 in the Journal of International Business Studies, whilst his last journal article was published in the Journal of International Business Policy in 2020. Kobrin’s collective scholarly work has been cited more than 10,000 times in Google Scholar, with a h-index of 36. He wrote nearly all of his highly influential work alone, much of it in the form of books and book chapters or even magazines such as Foreign Policy.

His Wharton memoriam relates that “his family and closest colleagues described Kobrin as a Renaissance man who had vast interests and a voracious appetite for learning. He followed politics and current events […] and was an early adopter of technology […]”. As shown below, this is clearly reflected in his academic work. It is impossible to do justice to the breadth and depth of Kobrin’s scholarly contributions in this short overview. Therefore, below is a very selective review of his scholarly work, focusing on his early and most recent work, both of which will be less familiar to many.