Beg K, Padmapriya B, Shajar SN, Ahmad MM, Faiyyaz AG. The bibliometric analysis of previous twenty- five years' literature: A microfinance review.
Heliyon 2024;
10:e24979. [PMID:
38317945 PMCID:
PMC10838773 DOI:
10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24979]
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Abstract
The tremendous increase in publications in Microfinance since 2000 has highlighted need for and importance of innovative techniques to present big data in this field in a most informative, scientific, and summarized manner. The study highlights the trends and patterns of Microfinance literature by revealing what has been done and what could be done in future. The study comprises of 1429 microfinance publications extracted from the Scopus database. The authors adopt bibliometric analysis through open software application R and network analysis techniques using Gephi AND VOS viewer software. The study adds a valuable contribution to the field of Microfinance by distinctively summarizing the important literature. It identifies global academic research trends and provides insights about trending topics, highly cited literature, authors, countries, collaboration network, word cloud, citation analysis, etc. Finally based on extensive literature survey through bibliometric analysis. The study highlights about the scope of future research in Microfinance.
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