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<p>Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) is an open access journal owned by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania). The paper’s objective is to present a palette of quantitative data regarding the performance of the journal between 2017 and 2022. The paper contains a comprehensive bibliometric study of the journal and an authorship pattern analysis. The sample contains 328 articles indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database. Results shows a significant growth in the number of citations of the SBE journal starting with WoS/Scopus indexation. The leading contributors to the journal are (a) authors (Ogrean C., Herciu M.), (b) institutions (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies), (c) countries (Romania, the USA). The most predominant are papers with a single author (37%), which means that 17% of the authors prefers to write and publish an article by itself. The largest number of authors are implied in three co-authored papers. On average, a paper published in SBE is elaborated by 2.12 scholars. 63% of papers published in SBE have more than two authors and 83% of scholars prefer co-authorship publications. The following key-topics were preferred by authors: impact, economic growth, performance. The indexing of SBE in WoS and Scopus led to an increase in the interest of researchers to publish in this journal.</p>
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Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) is an open access journal owned by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania). The paper’s objective is to present a palette of quantitative data regarding the performance of the journal between 2017 and 2022. The paper contains a comprehensive bibliometric study of the journal and an authorship pattern analysis. The sample contains 328 articles indexed in Web of Science (WoS) database. Results shows a significant growth in the number of citations of the SBE journal starting with WoS/Scopus indexation. The leading contributors to the journal are (a) authors (Ogrean C., Herciu M.), (b) institutions (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies), (c) countries (Romania, the USA). The most predominant are papers with a single author (37%), which means that 17% of the authors prefers to write and publish an article by itself. The largest number of authors are implied in three co-authored papers. On average, a paper published in SBE is elaborated by 2.12 scholars. 63% of papers published in SBE have more than two authors and 83% of scholars prefer co-authorship publications. The following key-topics were preferred by authors: impact, economic growth, performance. The indexing of SBE in WoS and Scopus led to an increase in the interest of researchers to publish in this journal.

Studies in Business and Economics: Six Years of Indexing in Web of Science

Studies in Business and Economics

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Studies in Business and Economics (SBE) is an open access journal owned by Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu (Romania). The paper’s objective is to present a...

Studies in Business and Economics: Six Years of Indexing in Web of Science

Publié en ligne: 11 janv. 2024

Pages: 76 - 90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2023-0046

Mots clés
journal performance, bibliometric analysis, authorship patterns, CiteSpace

© 2023 Liliana Bunescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Studies in Business and Economics: Six Years of Indexing in Web of Science

Publié en ligne: 11 janv. 2024

Pages: 76 - 90

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sbe-2023-0046

Mots clésjournal performance, bibliometric analysis, authorship patterns, CiteSpace

© 2023 Liliana Bunescu, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
journal performance, bibliometric analysis, authorship patterns, CiteSpace