Past, present and future of women entrepreneur research landscapes in small-medium enterprises: science mapping and thematic clustering

Neetu Juneja, Shweta Nanda and Raj Kumar Singh

International Journal of Process Management and Benchmarking, 2025, vol. 19, issue 3, 402-424

Abstract: This research uses bibliometric analysis to synthesise the literature on the women entrepreneur research landscape in small-medium enterprises (SMEs). This study examines past, current, and future research on women entrepreneurs in SMEs. The documents are extracted from the Scopus database, and 576 papers are chosen, applying the subject area, document type, and language filtering criteria. Citation analysis is performed to identify the most influential documents, institutions, countries, and authors. The most prolific writers and sources are identified using productivity analysis. The four thematic clusters of women entrepreneurs in SMEs are discovered using bibliographic coupling. Co-citation analysis is employed to identify citation patterns and highly referenced texts. Additionally, co-occurrence analysis is employed to create thematic trends, and word cloud highlights the frequently used keywords in women entrepreneur research in SMEs. The articles outline the directions for further study.

Keywords: women entrepreneur; small-medium enterprises; bibliometric analysis; word cloud; co-occurrence analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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