Purpose

This article offers a bibliometric analysis and explores the relationships among the documents on ecopreneurship by using relational techniques. The results highlight the publication trends; most cited documents, top contributing authors, countries and institutions with highest productivity and most contributing journals to the research field.

Design/methodology/approach

Initially, 216 documents were retrieved from the Thompson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection database with three document types: articles, review and book review. All the documents were considered for the analysis. Then VOSviewer and bibliometric analysis using R with an inbuilt utility Biblioshiny were used together for co-word analysis, co-citation network analysis, generating collaboration networks and also generating a unique three-field plot to analyze the evolution of a research field.

Findings

The results highlight the publication trends: most cited documents, top contributing authors, countries and institutions with highest productivity and most contributing journals to the research field. The network analysis of co-authorship, co-citation, keyword co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling reveals most prominent relationships between authors, documents, co-cited references, sources and countries for the available documents on the research field.

Research limitations/implications

The study helps not only in expansion of knowledgebase on the research topic but also in understanding the evolution of the ecopreneurship to provide research support further in this area.

Originality/value

Ecopreneurship is an emerging field of research connecting ecology and entrepreneurship together, making it a potential research area. The contributions made to this research field from 1989 to 2019 serve as a core for conducting this analysis. The study is an effort to help in coordinating research network across countries, authors and affiliating universities.

中文翻译：

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使用 VOSviewer 和 RStudio Bibliometrix 对生态创业的文献计量分析，1989–2019

目的

本文提供了文献计量分析，并通过使用关系技术探讨了有关生态创业的文献之间的关系。结果突出了发表趋势；被引用次数最多的文件、贡献最多的作者、生产力最高的国家和机构以及对研究领域贡献最多的期刊。

设计/方法/方法

最初，从 Thompson Reuters Web of Science Core Collection 数据库中检索了 216 份文档，其中包含三种文档类型：文章、评论和书评。所有文件都被考虑用于分析。然后，VOSviewer 和使用带有内置实用程序 Biblioshiny 的 R 的文献计量分析一起用于共词分析、共引网络分析、生成协作网络以及生成独特的三场图来分析研究领域的演变。

发现

结果突出了发表趋势：引用最多的文件、贡献最多的作者、生产力最高的国家和机构以及对研究领域贡献最多的期刊。对共同作者、共同被引、关键词共现和书目耦合的网络分析揭示了作者、文档、共同引用的参考文献、来源和研究领域可用文档的国家/地区之间最显着的关系。

研究限制/影响

该研究不仅有助于扩展有关研究主题的知识库，还有助于了解生态创业的演变，从而为该领域的进一步研究提供支持。

原创性/价值

生态创业是一个新兴的研究领域，将生态学和创业联系在一起，使其成为一个潜在的研究领域。1989 年至 2019 年对该研究领域的贡献是进行这一分析的核心。该研究旨在帮助协调跨国家、跨作者和附属大学的研究网络。