The Scientometrics of Social Entrepreneurship and Its Establishment as an Academic Field
用科学计量方法评估社会创业研究的成熟度，发现论文数量指数增长、七个维度的制度化、主题集群出现及方法论问题，并列出22篇高被引文献，其中近半为书籍而非期刊文章。
This paper provides an overview of the state of art of research on social entrepreneurship and the establishment of this topic in the academic world. It uses scientometric methods in measuring the maturity of social entrepreneurship research. The empirical part reveals the exponentially growing number of papers, the institutionalization of social entrepreneurship in seven dimensions, the emergence of thematic clusters, and methodological issues. The paper makes concrete suggestions on how to overcome methodological challenges. Furthermore, we provide a ranking of the 22 most cited academic contributions in social entrepreneurship. Surprisingly, almost half of the most cited papers have not been published in journals but in books, raising doubts about the current (over-)rating of journal publications.