A Bibliometric Analysis of Economic Resilience

Asma, Bibi; Ghaffary Fard, Mohammad

A Bibliometric Analysis of Economic Resilience

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Bibi Asma ¹
Mohammad Ghaffary Fard ²

¹ Economics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Ahlul Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran.

² Economics, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Ahlul Bayt International University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Economic resilience is a well-known term in the worldwide economic debates, which directs the strength and aptness of countries to combat shocks and retrieve to normal condition. Leading economists have widely discussed its significance and relevance, particularly pursuing the global financial meltdown in 2007-08. This paper aims to investigate the body of publications developed around economic resilience, recognizing its evolution or change, the most academically interested countries, the more appropriate authors, and upcoming research sequences. To fulfill this paper’s goals, the bibliometric analysis was applied to the publications, wherefore 355 documents fetched from 1986 through 2022 from the Scopus database were analyzed. The result suggests that the field of economic resilience has expanded every year. The US, UK, and China are among the top ten territories with the most increased production on the subject. The bibliometric report getting through VOSviewer software is observed that the topics of most compelling attraction have circled the economic resilience is corresponding to regional resilience, economic development, financial crisis, oil shocks, exchange rate shock, and sustainability. Moreover, this study will help researchers in the bibliometric analysis of economic resilience for forthcoming works on economic resilience.

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