Past Themes and Tracking Research Trends in Entrepreneurship: A Co-Word, Cites and Usage Count Analysis

Abstract

This paper examines the evolution of research in Entrepreneurship published in Web of Science, a reference database. A bibliometric content analysis has been carried out as part of this investigation, allowing for a longitudinal study of the main research topics dealt with over time, ranging from classic topics such as its conception to more recent realities that include Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship. This paper locates research trends by studying the evolution of citations and by incorporating use metrics. The results point to the existence of seven cognitive fronts that have marked the field’s growth and conceptual evolution. Furthermore, evidence is presented that shows how innovation has historically been the thread that links all the core themes. The topics and trends detected contribute specially to advancing the current discussion on entrepreneurship and coordinating future research efforts.

A Comprehensive Dataset for Bibliometric Analysis of Sustainable Entrepreneurship with Augmented Bibliometric Approach

“…SE is broadly recognized as a unique field that addresses how entrepreneurship can make a meaningful contribution to a more sustainable society. As the field of SE continues to evolve, studies have increasingly focused on its evolution, outlining the key topics and roadway for future analyses (Ramírez et al, 2019;Terán-Yépez et al, 2020;Sarango-Lalangui et al, 2018).…”

Application of graph theory in the library domain—Building a faceted framework based on a literature review

“…Approaches to (co-)citation were combined with bibliometrics, network analysis, textual information, and author collaboration, (Ding, 2011;Ganguly and Pudi, 2017;Buntine, 2014, 2016) evaluated (Boyack and Klavans, 2010;Leydesdorff and Vaughan, 2006;Lu and Wolfram, 2012) and used in varying areas such as recommender systems (Habib and Afzal, 2017;Küçüktunç et al, 2012), journal ranking (Kalaitzidakis et al, 2003), and classification (Leydesdorff, 2004). Increasingly, (co-)citation as an appropriate method for building science and literature graphs became commonly accepted (Radicchi et al, 2012) so that emphasis was placed on network metrics of these graphs in different domains (Brughmans, 2013;Caschili et al, 2014;Ji and Jin, 2016;Popp et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2015) and for a variety of use cases such as author name disambiguation (Schulz et al, 2014), comparing data providers (Šubelj et al, 2014), subject indexing (Wei et al, 2015), research trend detection (Asatani et al, 2018;Cabeza Ramírez et al, 2019;Hosseini et al, 2018;Kleminski et al, 2020), systematic reviews (Xu and Kajikawa, 2018), science mapping (Ferreira, 2018), journal citation networks (Leydesdorff et al, 2018), and information retrieval (Eto, 2019;Petri et al, 2014).…”

“…Increasingly, (co-)citation as an appropriate method for building science and literature graphs became commonly accepted (Radicchi et al, 2012) so that emphasis was placed on network metrics of these graphs in different domains (Brughmans, 2013;Caschili et al, 2014;Ji and Jin, 2016;Popp et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2015) and for a variety of use cases such as author name disambiguation (Schulz et al, 2014), comparing data providers (Šubelj et al, 2014), subject indexing (Wei et al, 2015), research trend detection (Asatani et al, 2018;Cabeza Ramírez et al, 2019;Hosseini et al, 2018;Kleminski et al, 2020), systematic reviews (Xu and Kajikawa, 2018), science mapping (Ferreira, 2018), journal citation networks (Leydesdorff et al, 2018), and information retrieval (Eto, 2019;Petri et al, 2014).…”

Analysing Social Determinants in Higher Education: A Bibliometric Perspective

“…In the context of higher education's social environment, bibliometric analysis can involve scrutinizing a vast array of scholarly articles, research papers, and publications related to social aspects within educational institutions. This method allows researchers to identify key themes, recurring topics, influential authors, and the evolution of research trends over time (Chen et al, 2019;de Oliveira et al, 2019;Nicolas et al, 2020;Ramírez et al, 2019).…”