Mapping the aliran of the academic discipline of entrepreneurship: A ...

4.1.3.02 The top 21 journals listed in Graphic 4a accounted for 800 appearances out of
the total of 2,161, or 37%. Two journa ls, the Journal of Business Vent uring and Small
Business Economics respectively had 198 and 109 appearances. Entrepreneurship and
Regional Development, Entrepreneurship – Theory and Practice, and the Jour nal of Small
Business Management probably could have had a greater number of appearances is all
issues of the journals had been in the portal. As discussed in 4.1.2.08, Entrepreneurship –
Theory and Practice should have garnered 21 more appearances to make actual 60
appearances. Also Journal of Business Venturing should have had a further 9 appearances
for those articles in Volume:1 that were not in the Web of Science database.
4.1.3.03 Besides the top 21 journals with 37% of appearances from total journals, the
distribution of the other journals was as shown in Graphic 4b. There is a heavy weighting
for the number of journals which made only small numbers of appearances in the portal.
While using ‘entrepreneurship’ as a search key word, many of the articles may have had
only a peripheral reference to the subject and hence a large portion of the citations are to
journals that could be considered less than relevant to the episteme.
Graphic
4b
Chart depicting the spread of the 2,161 articles from the 627
journals in the Web of Science episteme on entrepreneurship.
21 journals had more than 14 articles 800 37%
3 journals had 13 articles 39 1.8%
7 journals had 12 articles 84 3.9%
5 journals had 11 articles 55 2.5%
3 journals had 10 articles 30 1.4%
7 journals had 9 articles 63 2.9%
5 journals had 8 articles 40 1.9%
8 journals had 7 articles 56 2.6%
14 journals had 6 articles 84 3.9%
22 journals had 5 articles 110 5.0%
21 journals had 4 articles 84 3.9%
51 journals had 3 articles 153 7.1%
103 journals had 2 articles 206 9.5%
357 journals had 1 articles 357 16.5%
627 Total Total 2,161
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