Parts & Parcel of Entrepreneurship- Part VII - Kashi Patrika

Parts & Parcel of Entrepreneurship- Part VII

The Journal of Entrepreneurship: A Retrospective Bibliometric Analysis and Future Directions

Ganapathi Batthini, Nupur Vaishnav, Ashok Chaudhary & Ashok Madnani Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, P.O.: Bhat-382428, Gandhinagar, Gujarat (INDIA) E-mail: ganapathi@ediindia.org


Abstract


The Journal of Entrepreneurship (JoE), published bi-annually by Sage Publications (Copyright: Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India) since 1992, has been playing a vital role in dissemination of entrepreneurship related information all over the world. The paper is intended to bring out the results of a bibliometric study carried on all the issues of the JoE till Volume 25. The author examines the JoE year-wise, authorship pattern, country-wise distribution of papers, range of references cited, extent of acknowledgement, and number of appendices detailing supplement information included in the research articles of the JoE.


Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Bibliometric Analysis; The Journal of Entrepreneurship. 


Bibliometrics is of recent origin and relatively a new concept, which has emerged as a research front in its own right in Information Science. The word ‘bibliometric’ is derived from Latin and Greek words i.e. biblio and metrics. Different scholars defined the term bibliometric among them few are well cited as: Pritchard (1969) defined Bibliometrics as “the application of mathematical methods to books, journals and other media of communication”. The British Standard Institution defines Bibliometrics as “the use of documents and patterns of publication on which mathematical and statistical methods have been applied”. Hawkins (1977) interpreted Bibliometrics as “quantitative analysis of the bibliographic feature of a body of literature”. Bibliometrics earlier was known as “Statistical Bibliography”.


Keeping the relevance it, we realised the need to demonstrate bibliometric exercise with the selected journal because entrepreneurship as a area of research and practice is new and getting establishment from theory building point of views and indeed its one of the most dynamic area of research as well.


Source

The Journal of Entrepreneurship (JoE) is bi-annual journal published in March and

September every year by Sage Publications since 1992. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), (www.ediindia.org) Bhat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, reserves all copyrights. The JoE is also available electronically on Sage Journals Online at http://joe.sagepub.com. The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for print version is 0971-3557 and for online is 0973-0745


The Journal of Entrepreneurship is designed to disseminate the research outcomes of innovative challenging, and dynamic nature of the field with special reference to emerging economies. The journal focuses on the changing contours of entrepreneurial research and training and acquaints the readers with the latest trends and directions of explorations in the theory and practice of entrepreneurship. The originality evaluation, strong peer review of JoE helps to get high quality research papers with innovative methodologies, conceptual discoveries which leads to the contribution of knowledge and expands the frontiers of our knowledge and insight.


The JoE is indexed in Australian Business Deans Council, DeepDyve, Dutch-KB, EBSCO, EconLit, J-Gate, OCLC, Ohio, Portico, ProQuest: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) and SCOPUS. Along with these the journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).


The ranking of the JoE by SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is 152/332 under Business and International Management area; 193/347 under Strategy and Management and 354/545 under Economics and Econometrics. (http://joe.sagepub.com/)


The JoE has an H Index of 5. The H Index is a measure which compares the number of cited papers to the number of citations received by those papers. In this instance, the H Index indicates that JOE has 5 papers published with at least 5 citations each (Sage, 2015).

Scope

The scope of the study extends over all the 50 issues published from 1992 to 2016 (i.e. Volume 1 Number 1 to Volume 25 Number 2). The study covers research articles, book reviews and abstracts. Acknowledgements, appendices and references appended at the end of these articles and the addresses and affiliations contained therein are also studied and analyzed. The determination of the authors' institutional affiliation is based on the addresses and affiliation given in the articles themselves.


Objectives

The study undertakes to

1. Enlist year wise distribution of papers

2. Examine the average length of papers

3. Study the nature of authorship pattern

4. Determine the frequency and mean number of references cited by researchers

5. Examine the national and international scenario of the JoE

6. Determine the extent of acknowledgements being included and

7. Evaluate the year wise distribution of book reviews, abstracts and advertisements.

8. Know the top cited and read articles of the JoE


Methodology

In the study, each individual article is scanned, checked, examined and tabulated for necessary and relevant data, in terms of the authorship pattern, authors address and institutional affiliations, and inclusion of acknowledgement and appendices. Also the references appended by the respective authors at the end of each article were scanned, counted and tabulated and analyzed for making observations. The fact that this Journal is one of the premier and scholarly journal makes it an interesting case to study".

Analysis and Findings

Year wise Distribution of Papers

Table 1 below represents the distribution of 254 articles published in the JoE during 1992-2016. The highest number of papers i.e. 13 (5.12%) were published in 1997 while the lowest number of papers i.e. 6 (2.36%) were published in the inaugural volume of the JoE. In the years 2010 and 2012, 12 (4.72%) papers each were published. The table shows that 11 (4.33%) papers each were published in eleven volumes of the JoE during the years 1993-96, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014 to 2016. Also it can be observed from the following table that nine papers (3.54%) each was published during the years 2001-03 and 2007. In the years 2000, 2004-05, eight papers (3.15%) each was published in the JoE. The Mean value of the articles published per volume is 10.4 i.e. for every volume an average of ten articles was published.

Year wise Distribution of Length of Articles

Table 2 indicates the length of the articles i.e. number of pages published in the JoE during 1992 to 2016. Out of 254 published papers, 140 papers (55.12%) contains the pages ranging from 11 to 20 followed by 80 papers (31.50%) has 21 to 30 pages. Only one paper contains more than 40 pages (0.39%) in the JoE which was published in the inaugural volume. It can be observed that 19 papers (7.48%) of the JoE are below 10 pages and 14 papers (5.51%) are between 31 and 40 pages. The mean value of the length of articles is 19.12.

Year-wise Distribution of Authorship Pattern

Table 3 depicts the distribution of authorship pattern in the JoE. The data reveals that the concentration is more on single authored articles in the JoE during 1992-2016. Out of the total 254 articles published 125 articles (49.21%) were single authored articles. The numbers of two authored articles were 96 (37.80%) whereas 33 articles (12.99%) were authored by three or more than three authors.


Year wise Distribution of Citation of References

The following table 4 gives the details regarding the references cited by the authors in their articles published in the JoE during the first twenty five years of its publication.

The number of references varying from 1 to 30 comprised highest articles i.e. 127 (50%) of the total articles published so far. In the present study it has been observed that there were 55 articles (21.65%) which contained more than 50 references and 72 articles has between 31 and 50 references. The JoE contains four articles without any references being mentioned. The mean value of the citation of references is 30.93.




National and International Scenario

Table 5 gives an alphabetical list of countries from where the authors contributed the papers to the JoE. The affiliation of the first author has been taken for analysis. The table depicts that the maximum number of papers 105 (41.34%) were originated from India. The international contribution to the JoE is 149 (58.66%) from 33 countries. The United States of America, United Kingdom and Canada top the list with 73 articles (28.74%) in international contribution. The authors from Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Australia, South Africa and Belgium have contributed 7, 7, 6, 5, 5 and 4 papers respectively.


Year wise Distribution of Appendices in Articles

Table 6 reveals the frequency of appendices and annexures included in the articles of the JoE published during its first 25 volumes. Only 22 articles (8.66%) contained appendices, while remaining 232 articles (91.34%) does not contain appendices.



Year wise Distribution of Acknowledgements in Articles

Table 7 shows that status of the acknowledgements includes in the articles published in the JoE from 1992 to 2016. Out of a total of 254 articles, 43 articles (16.93%) contained formal acknowledgements, while 211 articles (83.07%) carried no acknowledgements.


Year wise Distribution of Book Reviews and Abstracts

The below table indicates that 273 (45.73%) book reviews and 324 (54.27%) abstracts compiled from articles published in other journals were published till 2016. The maximum book reviews and abstracts were published in 1992 i.e. inaugural volume of the JoE. From 2008 onwards it can be observed publishing book reviews were decreasing. Also the data shows that the publishing the abstracts has been stopped from 2005 onwards.


Year wise Distribution of Advertisements

It has been noted that the JoE encourages the advertisement of professional journals and books in its issues. It can be seen from the table 9 that 193 advertisements which include journals, books and conference announcements were appeared in the JoE from 1992 to 2016. The last 25 issues of the JoE have seen 88 advertisements (45.60%) of journals, 97 advertisements (50.26%) of books and four EDII’s conference announcements.

Most Cited Articles of the Journal of Entrepreneurship

Table 10 has been compiled by visiting the JoE online to find the most cited articles. The online version of the JoE gives the rankings of the top fifty articles of JoE based on citations to online articles from HighWire-hosted articles (http://joe.sagepub.com/). The following is the list of 15 top articles cited by various authors in their papers published in other journals.



Most Read Articles of the Journal of Entrepreneurship

Table 11 shows the most read articles which are recalculated at the beginning of every


Conclusion

The following are observations and conclusions derived from the above study.

The international exposure of the Journal of Entrepreneurship is more, as 149 articles (58.66 percent) from 33 different countries has been published in twenty five volumes.

The distribution of articles in the JoE from its inaugural issue to the latest is almost uniform and consistent.

Almost 99 percent of articles published in the JoE contains references, it shows that the only the research articles are published.

It is observed that the average length of papers between 11 and 20 (55.12%) which is to be considered as an ideal length of articles.

Since the entrepreneurship is a fast developing area of research, the journal may consider increasing the number of articles and space devoted in substantive research based articles and progressively phase out the section on book reviews.

Out of 254 articles, 211 articles (83.07%) does not contain formal acknowledgement. It shows that giving the acknowledgement is not a common practice among the contributors of the JoE. It is also observed that acknowledgements are not given at a consisting place in the article.

Advertisements inviting research papers on entrepreneurship and related subjects for publication in the JoE should appear in each issue.

Special issues on related subjects of entrepreneurship, viz. family business, incubation, intrapreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, sector specific entrepreneurship start-ups, sector etc. may be brought out.

Books on special themes may be brought-out by selecting articles from the Journal of Entrepreneurship from its first 25 volumes.

Finally the authors feel that the book reviews and advertisements about other leading journals and books on entrepreneurship and related subjects should be given preference.



Note

The first version of this article by Ganapathi and Madnani (2003) titled ‘The Journal of Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Study’ was published in ILA Bulletin, 39(4), October-December, 2003. The second version of this article by Ganapathi and Madnani (2011)

titled ‘The Journal of Entrepreneurship: A twenty-year bibliometric study’ was published conference proceedings ‘Strategies for Managing Libraries in Future’ organized by IIM Ahmedabad during December 7-9, 2011.

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