Bibliometric Analysis of the Economic Crisis Topic

Anna Bykova

Research WorkshopPerm, 2013

Key Points

• Motivation for research

• Data Sources & Methodology

• Results & Discussion

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Motivation for Investigation

• The purpose of this study is to explore empirically the state and evolution of the economic crisis for the 2008-2012 period.

• The results offer valuable insights and help understanding the economic crisis and make predictions (or catch significant research trends) on its future development.

• Bibliometrics is one of the most pivotal measures for the evaluation of scientific productions. Macias-Chapula told that "scientometric indicators have become essential to the scientific community to estimate the state-of-the-art of a given topic" (quoted in Lolis et. al. 2009).

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Scientometrics: basic points

Methodology was almost taken from….

Research Question• The aim of the study is conducting of bibliometric analysis to economic crisis

publications in journals listed in the four ISI subject categories in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) during 2000 - 2013: economics finance business business, and management.

• The objectives of the study are to determine the following: research output of the topic language and geographical distribution of the literature institution distribution of contributors authorship pattern highly cited authors and papers hot topics.

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Data & Methodology• The study is based on the scientific productions in Scientometrics as reflected in the

online version of the SSCI (Social Science Citation Index), the Web of Science. • The SSCI is a multidisciplinary database generated by Thomson Reuters. • The time period considered in this study is from 2008 to 2012. • The basis for the analysis is the bibliographical descriptions of articles and their

references from academic journals in various subject areas. • The SSCI was searched using the keyword the “crisis” as a part of a title, abstract, or

keyword to compile a bibliography of all manuscript related to this kind of research.• The reported impact factor (IF) of each journal was obtained from the 2011 JCR.

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Rank Category Total Cites

Median IF Aggregate IF # Journals # Articles

1 Business 230831 1.135 1.594 113 48552 Finance Business 100689 0.799 1.324 86 34583 Economics 401962 0.778 1.148 321 153274 Management 309457 1.183 1.662 168 7064

Distribution of Document Types

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Publication Output

Publication Years

 Record Count

(Articles) % of 3904

2012  1130  29

2011  1047  27

2010  797  20

2009  592  15

2008  338  9

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Publication Output: results from Scopus

Authorship & Publication Patterns

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 Authors Record Count(publications)

 % of 3904

J. Aizenman  13  0.33

H.S. Shin  12  0.31

V.V. Acharya  11  0.28

C.M. Reinhart  11  0.28

R. Alas  10  0.27

K.S. Rogoff  10  0.27

J.L. Stein  10  0.27

Source Titles TP (%) IF Subject

Journal of banking finance 120 (3.0) 2.60Finance Business

Journal of international money and finance

98 (2.5) 1.1Finance Business

Applied economics letters 72 (1.8) 0.2 Economics

South African journal of business management

58 (1.5) 0.2Business,

Economics

Economic modelling 53 (1.4) 0.7 Economics

Applied economics 50 (1.3) 0.5 Economics

Cambridge journal of economics 50 (1.3) 1.4 Economics

Journal of financial economics 50 (1.3) 3.7Finance Business

Distribution of Subject Category

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Countrywide publication

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Countries/Territories

 Record Count

 % of 3668

USA  1370  37 %

ENGLAND  444  12 %

AUSTRALIA  297  8 %

GERMANY  278  8 %

FRANCE  187  5 %

PEOPLES R CHINA  147  4 %

NETHERLANDS  142  4 %

CANADA  134  4 %

ITALY  128  3 %

SOUTH KOREA  118  3 %

Institute-wise publication

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Organisations  Record Count  % of 3662International Monetary Fund  99  3

National Bureau of Economic Research  96  3Harvard University  65  2

New York University  46  1World Bank  46  1

European Central Bank  45  1Columbia University  41  1

Australian National University  40  1Federal Reserve Bank New York  40  1

Chicago University  40  1University of California, Berkley  38  1

Cambridge University  36  1Michigan University  34  1

Pennsylvania University  27  1

Most frequently-cited articles

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TC TC per year Authors Year Title Journal IF

123 20.50

Young, Michael N.; Peng, Mike W.;

Ahlstrom, David; Bruton, Garry D.;

Jiang, Yi

2008

Corporate governance in emerging economies: A review of the principal-

principal perspective

Journal of management

studies4.23

99 16.50 Verhoogen, Eric A. 2008

Trade, quality upgrading, and wage

inequality in the Mexican manufacturing

sector

Quarterly journal of economics

3.79

76 15.20Mian, Atif; Sufi,

Amir2009

The consequences of mortgage credit

expansion: evidence from the us mortgage

default crisis

Quarterly journal of economics

3.79

Total number of citations for the most-cited article

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Hot issues

Research field Mapping

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Research field Mapping

Thank you for your attention!

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