Since its introduction in the mid-1980s, the theme 'Knowledge Management' (KM) has been approached under different aspects. In this sense, since the observed increase in the quantity of papers published in academic databases in the last 10 years, the objectives of this research are (1) find the terms more used in these works, and (2) differences between the terms found in Brazilian and foreign publications. For this, was applied the text mining technique. The results show that themes involving practices, processes, KM systems and information technologies are recurrently found in both article summaries national and international. Furthermore, in general, national articles are distinguished by the fact that they are associated with a more abstract aspects of the KM (models, tacit and organizational knowledge), while international are characterized by a more pragmatic terms (effectiveness, implementation, relationships and development).
Knowledge management; Text mining
