The paper's objectives were to determine, from a statistical viewpoint, the core research papers on the subject of small business risk, and to elaborate the mapping of the principal types of risk discovered. In order to achieve the stated result, a bibliometric analysis was performed on the topic of small business risk, and all the forms considered by the authors. The query generated 508 articles, identified in the WoS database. The mapping of the keywords was realized with the help of Vosviewer. The interest in the topic has grown since 1990, reaching a maximum of 51 papers in 2021. The literature was split into two clusters, one covering the impact of the markets and the financial risk, the second one focusing on the entrepreneurial and strategic risk. The originality resides in finding the risk associated with a small business, generating a mapping of the possible uncertainty facing a firm. The usefulness of the paper could be found in the compact display of risks that might be encountered by a small business, from which business owners or managers can prepare a strategy, especially in unpredictable environments induced by the Covid pandemic and the high level of inflation.