State of the Art and Trends of the Research on Women, Entrepreneurship and Success: A Bibliometric Review
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In the last few decades, the rise of women’s entrepreneurship topic attracts considerable attention among scholarly research. Hence, women’s interest in business witnessed a rapid growth that made them reach the strength to impact the global economy. Owing to the rising quantity of studies in this area, this paper analyses and reports on various sorts of published works concerning women’s entrepreneurship success. Thus, this study employs bibliometric analysis based on the data from the Scopus online database as of January 2022. The study targeted 300 valid documents for further analysis based on the search results for ‘key terms.’ The author then used VOS viewer to visualise data. This paper presents the findings from typical bibliometric indicators, focusing on the rate of publication growth, citation analysis, and research productivity. According to the results, there has been a rise in women entrepreneurs’ success literature growth rate since 1988. An analysis by country, The United States of America ranks top in productivity with 68 (22.67%) published documents. Concerning the frequency of citations, Buttner and Moore (1997)’s article emerges as the most cited article with an average of 19 citations per year. Overall, the increased number of works on women’s entrepreneurship success indicates growing awareness of its importance and specific requirements text.
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