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Knowledge mapping of microfinance performance research: a bibliometric analysis
International Journal of Social Economics Pub Date : 2021-01-06 , DOI: 10.1108/ijse-08-2020-0545
Shabiha Akter , Md Hamid Uddin , Ahmad Hakimi Tajuddin

Purpose

Performance assessment of microfinance institutions (MFIs) has long been a question of considerable research interest. The dual goals – financial performance and social performance of MFIs widely studied yet remain unsolved in the existing literature. To assess the knowledge structure of research in this area and to aid future research, we review the literature with bibliometric analysis.

Design/methodology/approach

Our study has used bibliographic data of 1,252 scientific documents indexed in the Scopus database from 1995 to 2020 (June 05). We have used the “bibliometrix” package in R language to analyze the data and illustrate the findings.

Findings

We find that there has been an increasing trend in publications, especially from 2006 onwards. Various bibliometric indicators allow us to follow the progression of knowledge along with identifying the most contributing and impactful authors, publication sources, institutions and countries. We illustrate the major research themes and identify that “poverty alleviations”, “group lending” and “credit scoring” are the major emerging and specialized themes besides the basic research evolved around “microfinance” or “microcredit”. Our further analysis of thematic evolution over different time frames reveals that “financial performance” aspect is getting more attention in recent times in evaluating the performance of MFIs.

Originality/value

The insights of knowledge accumulated from our bibliometric review and thematic analysis provide researchers with an efficient comprehension of the advancement of the research on microfinance performance and offer avenues for future scientific endeavors.



中文翻译:

小额信贷绩效研究的知识图谱:文献计量分析

目的

长期以来,小额信贷机构(MFI)的绩效评估一直是相当重要的研究热点。对微型金融机构的财务绩效和社会绩效的双重目标进行了广泛研究,但在现有文献中仍未解决。为了评估该领域研究的知识结构并为将来的研究提供帮助,我们通过文献计量分析对文献进行回顾。

设计/方法/方法

我们的研究使用了1995年至2020年(6月5日)在Scopus数据库中建立索引的1,252篇科学文献的书目数据。我们已经使用R语言的“ bibliometrix”软件包来分析数据并说明结果。

发现

我们发现出版物的数量呈上升趋势,尤其是从2006年开始。各种文献计量指标使我们能够跟踪知识的发展,并确定最有贡献和影响力的作者,出版物来源,机构和国家。我们举例说明了主要的研究主题,并确定“扶贫”,“团体贷款”和“信贷评分”是围绕“小额信贷”或“小额信贷”发展的基础研究以外的主要新兴主题和专门主题。我们对不同时间范围内主题演变的进一步分析表明,“财务绩效”方面最近在评估小额信贷机构的绩效方面受到越来越多的关注。

创意/价值

通过我们的文献计量学评论和主题分析积累的知识见解为研究人员提供了对小额信贷绩效研究进展的有效理解,并为未来的科学工作提供了途径。

更新日期:2021-03-15
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