Jaime de Pablo Valenciano, Juan Uribe-Toril, Jose Luis Ruiz-Real
Entrepreneurship is a subject of great interest and depth which is currently being introduced into various education systems and is also the subject of a great deal of scientific research published in the form of case studies and innovative methodologies. This article will present the main contributions in this area of research. To this end a bibliometric retrospective description analysis of the documents included in the Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) and Scopus databases between 2001 and 2018. Various variables are included in the analysis of the research on this topic: total number of documents, articles and citations per year, their relative Hirsch index; articles and citations by country; trends in articles in the principal countries; most relevant authors and research organizations; most influential journals; most influential organizations by author; most cited articles and keyword trends. After applying the relevant filters a total of 1,564 and 1,308 documents were found on WoS and Scopus, respectively. The results show a positive evolution in the number of articles and citations, particularly since 2010. Both databases show that the United States and the United Kingdom are the most relevant countries in this field, both in terms of articles and citations. The most influential organizations are located in the U.S., the U.K. and Finland. An analysis of the co-occurrence of keywords and an indication of future lines of research included terms such as neoliberalism, active learning, youth and design thinking.