Bibliometric Analysis of Social Capital Research during 1956 to 2008

The objective of this research primary describes the trend analysis of international periodicals and literatures which titles as well-known “Social Capital” at SSCI database from 1956 to 2008. The result of this paper inferred that the literature production on social capital has reached highly growth in the last 10 years. The distribution of author productivity does not follow by Lotka’s Law. The applications of social capital are mainly in consisting of the following research aspects: sociology; economics; public, environmental and occupational health; political science; planning and development; management; business; social sciences and interdisciplinary. The literatures of social capital usually were generated by multiple authorships.