Investigation on the subject trends of entrepreneurship articles in Iranian journals from 1982 to 2010

This is the first time that such research has been performed in Iran and there were no other research on the subject. Statistical universe of the research includes 336 of entrepreneurship articles published in the journals of Islamic Republic of Iran from 1982 to 2010. Research method is based on bibliometric. It is found that 61.6 percent of the entrepreneurship articles are published in journals without rank. Science and research journals with 26.2 percent and science and promotional journals with 9.2 percent are in the next ranks. Most of the entrepreneurship articles are published in 2008 with 19% and in 2007 with 16.4 percent. The least published articles are in 1993 and 1996, with 0.3 percent each. Most of the articles are on Higher education (12.5 percent) with respect to their subject, and in the second place, article of the women issue, include 36 articles (10.7 percent) of all articles. The least published articles on the topic of innovation, trade, agriculture and management, with 2.7, 2.4, 1.8 and 1.2 percent of published articles, respectively.

کلیدواژه ها:

Entrepreneurship ، Subject trend ، Research ، Articles