A decade of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business: a bibliometric analysis

The purpose of this paper is to offer a complete overview of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB) from 2006 to 2016. By using SCOPUS database to analyse the most cited papers and the most prolific authors, the article provides a map of the knowledge produced and disseminated by the journal taking in consideration 809 papers. Furthermore, through a keywords correlation analysis, the authors highlight the most relevant topics and the relative importance in terms of number of citations, by analysing how they are clustered together. Finally, the paper shows the past, the present, and the future trends in IJESB through a representation of the average novelty of each keyword