Microcredit, SHGs & rural entrepreneurship in India: A bibliometric study though Scopus

Abstract

Microcredit through Self Help Groups (SHGs) plays a significant role to promote rural entrepreneurship and underprivileged groups of the society. It facilitates small loans to initiate micro level income generating activates, which promotes financial and self independence among them. It also ensures healthier society and better future of a nation. The objective of the study is to map the growth of literature of rural entrepreneurship through microcredit and self-help group by conducting a bibliometric analysis recovered from Scopus database within 1999-2001. The study aims to investigate the year-wise publications, citations pattern, channel of communication and types of documents from the top cited articles published during the study period. A total of 100 papers were found during the study period. The study also shows the association of keywords by mapping their occurrences from the Title and Abstract field as well as used by Author’s. The study concluded with the note that there should be more initiation among the researchers for the growth of the field.