Title: Past, present, and future of self-help groups on empowerment of women research: bibliometric analysis

Authors: Akash Kumar Srivastava; Hari Prapan Sharma

Addresses: Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to conduct bibliometric analysis to synthesise the publication trends of self-help groups (SHGs) on the empowerment of women. Hence, this study examines the past, present, and future research of SHGs on the empowerment of women. The document is extracted from the Scopus database and the PRISMA approach is applied to select 202 documents for bibliometric analysis. Citations analysis is used to discover the most impactful publications and contributors. Productivity analysis is used to know the most productive authors and sources. Bibliometric analysis is used to uncover the four thematic clusters of research in SHGs on the empowerment of women. Co-citation analysis is used to draw citation patterns and highly referenced documents. Further, co-occurrence analysis is used to develop the thematic trend of research in SHGs on the empowerment of women. The future research directions are presented in the papers.

Keywords: women empowerment; self-help groups; SHGs; citation analysis; productivity analysis; bibliographic coupling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2024.142587

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2024 Vol.33 No.3, pp.326 - 340

Received: 01 May 2023
Accepted: 09 May 2023
Published online: 11 Nov 2024 *

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