Title: Fifteen years of International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business: a bibliometric overview

Authors: Satish Kumar; Riya Sureka

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur 302017, Rajasthan, India ' Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur 302017, Rajasthan, India

Abstract: The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB) is a refereed journal publishing original peer reviewed articles. It completed its 15 years of active publishing in the year 2018. The purpose of the study is to celebrate this event and provide a comprehensive overview of the IJESB articles with bibliometric analysis. Bibliometric analysis with graphical mapping of bibliographic data is carried to ascertain the publication pattern of IJESB between 2004 and 2018. Major findings suggest that the journal has a growing trend both in terms of publications and citations. France and the USA are the key contributors to the journal. Major themes covered by the journal comprise entrepreneurship, social capital, family business, small business, internationalisation and innovation.

Keywords: entrepreneurship; small business; SME; VOSviewer; bibliographic coupling; bibliometric analyses.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2022.124463

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2022 Vol.46 No.3, pp.394 - 415

Received: 11 Sep 2019
Accepted: 11 Sep 2019
Published online: 27 Jul 2022 *

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