Forty-five years ofthe International Journal of Social Economics (IJSE): a bibliometric overview

Satish Kumar, Riya Sureka and Nitesh Pandey

International Journal of Social Economics, 2020, vol. 47, issue 7, 831-849

Abstract: Purpose - TheInternational Journal of Social Economicshas completed 45 years of its publication in 2018; as a part of this recognition, this paper aims to present an overview of theIJSEthrough bibliometric analysis of its contents from 1974–2018. Design/methodology/approach - Using data from Scopus database, the prominence of the research is assessed by studying and analyzing annual publication, and citation structure, most cited papers inIJSE, documents most cited byIJSE, most productive author, institution and country inIJSEwith their temporal analysis and the thematic structure of the journal through keyword co-occurrence analysis. Additionally, a graphical representation of the bibliometric data using VOSviewer is presented in the paper. Findings - Major findings show thatIJSEhas grown in productivity, as well as stature as the number of articles published each year, and the citation counts are increasing. Major themes published in the journal include poverty, social economics sustainable development, developing country, religion, economic theory, etc. Originality/value - This is the first article providing an overall summary of the research work published in the journal.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; VOSviewer; h-index; Citation analysis; Poverty; Bibliometric coupling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eme:ijsepp:ijse-08-2019-0492

DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-08-2019-0492

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