Growth and Development of Global Startup Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

A startup is a new platform formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. It has usually a combination of two things: an interesting problem or need, and an approach for solving that problem. The present study is the assessment of growth and development of startup research which describes the publication growth, contribution and the impact of startup research carried out by the researcher around the world. The study examines the research articles published on the startup covered by the Scopus database. The main aim of the study is to examine the research growth and development on startup since its establishment. The result shows that the startup research has grown extensively since 19^th century, and have significant contributions in the various subject areas, spanning across in multilingual geographies, and in the research and academic universities.

Scopus, a citation and bibliographical database was used to retrieve the research articles published on the startup. Keyword-based search performed through simple search facility, startup as the keyword used to retrieve the data and data were extracted as on 25^th July 2018 from the Scopus database. A major strength of this database is the sufficient coverage it provides over 21,500 journal titles, including 4,200 Open Access journals from more than 5,000 international publishers. Authors have used the Microsoft Excel for analyzing the cited references by the following criteria:

· Year-wise publications growth startup research

· Various document type published on startup

· Subject area coverage

· Worldwide geographical contribution on startup research

· Top 10 source titles

· Top 10 prolific authors on startup

· Top Institutes contributions

· Top 10 cited startup publications

· Language coverage