Investigating crowdfunding Research Evolution Using Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization

investigating the intellectual and conceptual structure of crowdfunding enable scholars not only to understand the dominant intellectual framework on the special subject, but also help them to identify current and future research trends. To do so, present study is a quantitative review aims at specifying the scientific evolution in crowdfunding using bibliometric analysis and and visualisation software. this bibliometric study analyzed 1210 scientific productions retrieved from the web of science database and next used VOS viewer software for mapping and showing relationships. In the first step this study is study identified leading authors, articles, journals, institutions and countries in this field and then co-citation and keywords co-occurrence analysis conducted.study findings indicate increasing trend of studies, in particular since 2016. in terms of number of scientific productions and citations , 2021 reached the highest point with 273 and 7011. Based on citation analysis four clusters discovered showing the intellectual structure underlying these studies. Moreover, utilizing the keywords co-occurrence analysis confirmed these findings and also presented the evolution of this topic and it’s constructing schools of thoughts. This review also highlighted some interesting research gaps.