Overview of Scientific Production in Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Study

• Autor(a) principal: Bernardo, Evelyn Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Heidy Rodriguez, Vils, Leonardo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Empreendedorismo e Gestão de Pequenas Empresas - REGEPE
• Texto Completo: https://www.regepe.org.br/regepe/article/view/1165
• topic: Rural Entrepreneurship; Family Agriculture; Rural Farmer; Empreendedorismo Rural; Agricultura Familiar; Agricultor Rural

This article aims to analyze the panorama of publications on the theme of rural entrepreneurship through a bibliometric study. For this, 417 articles published on the Web of Science platform linked to the topic "rural entrepreneurship" in the English language were analyzed. It was traced the evolution of the publications through analysis of citations in all the articles published in the platform. The method allowed the identification of the most influential works, with the purpose of understanding the intellectual ties and the evolution, over the time, of the research on the proposed theme. The results obtained allowed the identification of the most cited authors and the formation of four groups of authors working on the topic of rural entrepreneurship. It was also possible to verify that the field of research focused on this theme is on the rise and that the use of the term "rural entrepreneurship" has been growing and consolidating in the academic world.