Knowledge Decay

Knowledge Decay is the gradual erosion or loss of stored knowledge within an individual or organizational system over time due to disuse, lack of reinforcement, or failure in retrieval mechanisms, distinguishing it from related knowledge retention phenomena by its focus on the temporal decline in knowledge accessibility and accuracy.

217

Publications

16.8K

Citations

491

Authors

273

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Knowledge Attrition

Parents

Knowledge Retention

Children

Active ForgettingCued Recall DecayInterference TheoryKnowledge ErosionMemory Reconsolidation InterferenceMemory Trace StrengthPractice DecayRecognition Memory DecaySkill DecayTrace Decay

Publications

217

A continual learning survey: Defying forgetting in classification tasks

Matthias Delange, Rahaf Aljundi, Marc Masana et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021 · 1.6K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +15

Teaching in the knowledge society: education in the age of insecurity

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 1.3K citations

Education, Teacher Education, Teaching +16

Social Indentity And The Problem of Loyalty In Knowledge‐Intensive Companies

Mats Alvesson · Journal of Management Studies · 2000 · 615 citations

Management, Knowledge Management, Organization Studies +17

Teaching in the knowledge society: education in the age of insecurity

David Hamilton · Journal of In-service Education · 2003 · 556 citations

Education, Teacher Education, Teaching +16

Forgetting and the law of disuse.

John A. McGeoch · Psychological Review · 1932 · 490 citations

Social Sciences, Jurisprudence, Memory +5

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Authors

491

SD
Susanne Durst
University of Skövde, Sweden
4 publications · 353 citations
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MS
Muhammad Saleem Sumbal
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China
3 publications · 161 citations
3
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SW
Stefan Wilhelm
University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
3 publications · 306 citations
3
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ET
Eric Tsui
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China
3 publications · 161 citations
3
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TM
Tayyab Maqsood
RMIT University, Australia
3 publications · 88 citations
3
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1–5 of 491

Institutions

273

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Venues

Journal of Knowledge Management
15 publications · 1.4K citations
14
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VINE
3 publications · 157 citations
3
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
JASIS · 3 publications · 138 citations
3
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Scientometrics
3 publications · 53 citations
3
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International Journal of Production Research
2 publications · 49 citations
2
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