Science Mapping: A Scientometric Review on Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, and Conflict Resources during 1993–2020

Over the past few decades, wealth of Africa has not made African wealthy. There is a voicing that cursed, whether richly poor or poorly rich. Sub-Saharan commonplace for political turbulence, as well humanitarian and economic misery. In such catastrophic situa-tion, economics studies have focused on Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, Con-flict Resources in this area. A systematic scientometric analysis field would be beneficial but currently lacking academic literature. Using VOSviewer CiteSpace, review fills void by analyzing 1783 articles published WoS SSCI Collection between 1993 2020 “Resource Curses”, “Dutch Diseases”, “Conflict Resources”. The author dis-cusses recent papers with disruptive potential, references most robust citation explora-tions, cooperation networks authors institutes. Three hotspots were detected: causes effects curses; interaction among Conflict Resources; factors affect rent collection regime resilience. While literature curse” Disease” been around longer, Resources” are picking up quickly. characterized active exploration keywords multiple co-citation clusters, including possibly groundbreaking articles. massive overlap three strings literature, each one its emphasis.