A Bibliometric Analysis on Business and Management Research During COVID-19 Pandemic: Trends and Prospects

Abstract

As the global pandemic of COVID-19 has drawn significant attention with an increasing number of research studies appearing in the literature, it is imperative to analyse the recent trends of research and future thrust areas. In numerous fields of knowledge, including business and management, the COVID-19 problem has produced enormous research undertakings. A bibliometric study of the articles published during the COVID-19 period in the area of business and management is rare with the focus on the South-Asian context. The total number of articles identified for the purpose of research throughout the Scopus database was 3,648 using the COVID-19 keyword and limiting this search to published journal articles in the domain of business and management. Further, VOSviewer software was used to analyse data and finds were presented. VOSviewer software has given the results on the cluster of authors, country of publications, citation analysis, co-citation, keywords and significant journals of publication. Given that the COVID-19 epidemic is still far from being under control, more research is needed to determine the direction of future research and other current topics. This study will provide the prospects in COVID-19-related business research and will end by pointing out the implications of these results.