A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the previous studies on social entrepreneurship and maps the studies according to publication year and growth, source, language, subject area, countries and institution’s productivity, and also citation metrics. Suggestions for future research based on...
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| author | Sabri, Khairun Najihah Mohamad, Siti Fatimah Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah Ghazali, Hazrina Ali@Hamid, Mass Hareeza |
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| description | This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the previous studies on social entrepreneurship and maps the studies according to publication year and growth, source, language, subject area, countries and institution’s productivity, and also citation metrics. Suggestions for future research based on the four decades of bibliometric analysis are presented towards the end of this paper. The bibliometric analysis was conducted on 1,835 social entrepreneurship articles retrieved from the Scopus database. The articles were published from 1978 until 2021. The software used in the analysis comprised Microsoft Excel for frequency analysis, VOSviewer for data visualization, and Harzing’s Publish or Perish for citation metrics and analysis. The findings show that there has been a tremendous growth of publications on social entrepreneurship over the years, indicating that social entrepreneurship is an emerging research discipline with many potential academic fields to be explored. The subject areas of business, management and accounting are the prominent areas for the social entrepreneurship publication within the context of the Scopus database. This study presents a bird's-eye view of the current trend of social entrepreneurship research globally. The bibliometric analysis indicators from this study serve as a guide to researchers in identifying the most suitable journals for publication, potential collaborators and areas for future research. |
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| spelling | upm-1168012025-04-16T04:02:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/116801/ A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship Sabri, Khairun Najihah Mohamad, Siti Fatimah Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah Ghazali, Hazrina Ali@Hamid, Mass Hareeza This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of the previous studies on social entrepreneurship and maps the studies according to publication year and growth, source, language, subject area, countries and institution’s productivity, and also citation metrics. Suggestions for future research based on the four decades of bibliometric analysis are presented towards the end of this paper. The bibliometric analysis was conducted on 1,835 social entrepreneurship articles retrieved from the Scopus database. The articles were published from 1978 until 2021. The software used in the analysis comprised Microsoft Excel for frequency analysis, VOSviewer for data visualization, and Harzing’s Publish or Perish for citation metrics and analysis. The findings show that there has been a tremendous growth of publications on social entrepreneurship over the years, indicating that social entrepreneurship is an emerging research discipline with many potential academic fields to be explored. The subject areas of business, management and accounting are the prominent areas for the social entrepreneurship publication within the context of the Scopus database. This study presents a bird's-eye view of the current trend of social entrepreneurship research globally. The bibliometric analysis indicators from this study serve as a guide to researchers in identifying the most suitable journals for publication, potential collaborators and areas for future research. Human Resources Management Academic Research Society (HRMARS) 2024-03-15 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/116801/1/116801.pdf Sabri, Khairun Najihah and Mohamad, Siti Fatimah and Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah and Ghazali, Hazrina and Ali@Hamid, Mass Hareeza (2024) A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14 (3). pp. 825-840. ISSN 2222-6990 https://hrmars.com/index.php/IJARBSS/article/view/20982/A-Four-decade-Bibliometric-Analysis-of-Social-Entrepreneurship 10.6007/ijarbss/v14-i3/20982 |
| spellingShingle | Sabri, Khairun Najihah Mohamad, Siti Fatimah Ungku Zainal Abidin, Ungku Fatimah Ghazali, Hazrina Ali@Hamid, Mass Hareeza A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
| title | A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
| title_full | A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
| title_fullStr | A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
| title_full_unstemmed | A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
| title_short | A four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
| title_sort | four-decade bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship |
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