Track: Entrepreneurship

Abstract

Research on rural entrepreneurs continues to develop but is limited to one field or one country. From a bibliometric application, this study aims to visually research mapping and research trends in the field of the rural entrepreneur. This study used bibliometric techniques with secondary data from Scopus. Analyze and visualize data using the VOSViewer program and the analyze search results function on Scopus. This study analyzed 210 scientific documents published from 1985 to 2020. According to the research, the United States and Gerard McElwee had the most active affiliated country and individual scientists of rural entrepreneur research. Social sciences and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research were the most studied and disseminated outlets of rural entrepreneur publications. There were four category maps of collaborative researchers. Based on the identification of a collection of knowledge generated from over thirty-five years of publication, this research proposes a grouping of rural entrepreneur publication themes: Business development, Rural area, Entrepreneur, Economy, and Social capital, as BREES publication themes.