Small and Medium Enterprise and Covid-19: a Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

This paper aimed to review existing literature on SMEs and COVID-19, retrieved from Scopus (a highly reputable database) for 2020 and 2021. Bibliometric analysis is used to analyse 90 journal articles of their citations, language, subject area, year of publication, countries, cited authors, institutions, co-authorship trends and keywords co-occurrence. This study finds that a growing since its inception in terms of many publications and citations. English is the dominant language, while business, management and accounting are the dominant subject area. The year 2021 is the dominant publication year, Indonesia is the dominant country, Sustainability is the dominant journal and Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity is the dominant citation-based on the journal, ten authors have equally published two articles with Lu, L., Lu, Y. and Peng, J. are the most cited authors. Moreover, this study presents the map and density of the topic related to the COVID-19 on SMEs. This would be the first study using bibliometric analysis that covers a variety of journals/publications on COVID-19 and SMEs. Future research is suggested to refer to these results to better understand COVID-19 and SMEs by finding relevant and related variables/keywords.