When the Periphery Leads but Nobody Follows: A Bibliometric Diagnosis of Youth Rural Entrepreneurship Research (1988-2026)

This dataset contains the supplementary materials accompanying the manuscript "When the Periphery Leads but Nobody Follows: A Bibliometric Diagnosis of Youth Rural Entrepreneurship Research (1988–2026)", submitted to Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature).

It contains all the raw data, processed datasets, screening logs, search-strategy documentation, PRISMA 2020 materials, R analysis scripts and final figures necessary to reproduce, end-to-end, the bibliometric analysis reported in the article.

Search date: 30 January 2026Databases: Web of Science Core Collection; ScopusFinal corpus: 198 documents (1988–2026), 118 sources, 587 authorsSoftware: R 4.3.2; bibliometrix v4.0 (Aria & Cuccurullo, 2017); Biblioshiny; Rayyan QCRI (Ouzzani et al., 2016)

Folder structure:

01_Search_Strategy — verbatim Web of Science and Scopus query strings, with field tags, indexes searched and search date.02_Raw_Data — unmodified Web of Science plain-text export (n = 63) and Scopus RIS export (n = 205), as downloaded on 30 January 2026.03_Screening_Rayyan — Rayyan QCRI deduplication and screening project export, plus the Rayyan PDF report.04_Processed_Data — unified WoS + Scopus corpus in bibliometrix-ready format and one CSV per table or figure of the manuscript.05_Scripts — R 4.3.2 pipeline that reproduces every figure and table from the raw exports.06_PRISMA — completed PRISMA 2020 checklist and flow diagram (manuscript Figure 1) in editable SVG and high-resolution PNG, plus the regeneration script.07_Figures — final PNG copies of Figures 2–5 of the manuscript.08_Documentation — inclusion and exclusion criteria, coding scheme, the 127 stopwords removed before thematic mapping, and the 16 synonym groups used for keyword consolidation.

Reproducibility. Running the scripts in 05_Scripts in numerical order (01 to 05) and the PRISMA script in 06_PRISMA regenerates every figure and table of the manuscript from the raw exports.

Note on redistribution of bibliographic metadata. The bibliographic content from Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus is included strictly to allow reproduction of the analyses reported in the manuscript and remains subject to those databases' terms of service. The original work in this archive (documentation, code, processed datasets, figures) is released under CC BY 4.0.

Related publication. This deposit supports the article cited above; the corresponding article DOI will be added as a related identifier ("is supplement to") once the manuscript is in production.

Key references:

Aria, M., & Cuccurullo, C. (2017). bibliometrix: An R-tool for comprehensive science mapping analysis. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 959–975.Cobo, M. J., López-Herrera, A. G., Herrera-Viedma, E., & Herrera, F. (2011). An approach for detecting, quantifying, and visualizing the evolution of a research field. Journal of Informetrics, 5(1), 146–166.Ouzzani, M., Hammady, H., Fedorowicz, Z., & Elmagarmid, A. (2016). Rayyan — a web and mobile app for systematic reviews. Systematic Reviews, 5, 210.Page, M. J., McKenzie, J. E., Bossuyt, P. M., et al. (2021). The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ, 372, n71.