Mapping the social entrepreneurship research: Bibliographic coupling, co-citation and co-word analyses

In recent years, social entrepreneurship has received an increasing attention from the academic community. Social is a topic related to various areas such as economics, management, education, sociology, psychology, and it not surprising that issues are always debated with definitions, methods, approaches. This study aims establish networks maps in based on systematic review of 1361 publications Web Science database. More specifically, three methods bibliographic analysis, namely coupling, co-citation co-word analyses used explore publication rankings main clusters by each method, most influential publications, authors, journals, keywords therefore identified. The results this help researchers locate their research, discover potential themes for future make knowledge more accessible new policymakers.