A Bibliometric Analysis of Crowdfunding Related Research: Current trends and Future Prospect

Abstract

Crowd Funding is a behavior that raises funds for projects or venture capital by generating a small amount of money from a large number of people. It started late in China, but has rapidly been developeing. At present, the research on crowdfunding in China is still at an early stage and lacks deep-level exploration Those researches mostly focus on the meaning, characteristics, and operating methods of crowd Funding. Therefore, this paper takes crowd Funding literature as the research object, using CiteSpace to map, describe and counts the related keywords and cited references in the target domain. Starting with the cited relations among the existing studies of core database, focusing on weighted documents, this papaer analyzes the relationship of cooccurrence in crowd funding papers, and conductes research hotspots, trends and knowledge structures in the "Crowd Funding" field. The results show that the business economy is the largest research category in crowdfunding, followed by computer science and government laws and regulations, and there are also studies about crowdfunding from the perspective of the environmental ecology science, public management and social science.