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

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

PurposeThe International Journal of Social Economics has completed 45 years of its publication in 2018; as a part of this recognition, this paper aims to present an overview of the IJSE through bibliometric analysis of its contents from 1974–2018.Design/methodology/approachUsing data from Scopus dat...

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Published in:International journal of social economics 2020-07, Vol.47 (7), p.831-849
Main Authors: Kumar, Satish, Sureka, Riya, Pandey, Nitesh
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Bibliographic coupling
Bibliographic records
Bibliometrics
Business to business commerce
Citations
Cocitation
Colleges & universities
Comorbidity
Economic growth
Economic theory
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Height
Hirsch index
Poverty
Productivity
Publishing
Religion
Science
Social development
Social economics
Social sciences
Software
Sustainable development
Trends
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Summary:PurposeThe International Journal of Social Economics has completed 45 years of its publication in 2018; as a part of this recognition, this paper aims to present an overview of the IJSE through bibliometric analysis of its contents from 1974–2018.Design/methodology/approachUsing data from Scopus database, the prominence of the research is assessed by studying and analyzing annual publication, and citation structure, most cited papers in IJSE, documents most cited by IJSE, most productive author, institution and country in IJSE with 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.FindingsMajor findings show that IJSE has 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/valueThis is the first article providing an overall summary of the research work published in the journal.
ISSN:0306-8293
1758-6712