Growth and Development of Global Startup Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

A startup is a new
platform formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. It has usually
a combination of two things: an interesting problem or need, and an approach
for solving that problem. The present study is the assessment of growth and
development of startup research which describes the publication growth,
contribution and the impact of startup research carried out by the researcher
around the world. The study examines the research articles published on the
startup covered by the Scopus database. The main aim of the study is to examine
the research growth and development on startup since its establishment. The
result shows that the startup research has grown extensively since 19th
century, and have significant contributions in the various subject areas, spanning
across in multilingual geographies, and in the research and academic
universities.

Scopus,
a citation and bibliographical database was used to retrieve the research
articles published on the startup. Keyword-based search performed through
simple search facility, startup as the keyword used to retrieve the data and
data were extracted as on 25th July 2018 from the Scopus
database. A major strength of this
database is the sufficient coverage it provides over 21,500 journal titles,
including 4,200 Open Access journals from more than 5,000 international
publishers. Authors have used the Microsoft Excel for analyzing the cited
references by the following criteria:

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Year-wise
publications growth startup research

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Various
document type published on startup

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Subject
area coverage

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Worldwide
geographical contribution on startup research

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Top
10 source titles

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Top
10 prolific authors on startup

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Top
Institutes contributions

·
Top
10 cited startup publications

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Language
coverage