Bibliometric analysis of international scientific publications on innovation in economics

In this study, it is aimed to examine the international scientific publications on innovation in the field of economics with the bibliometric analysis method. For this purpose, the existence of the concept of innovation in the literature, its types, etc. There are many studies investigating. Based on these studies, an in-depth literature review on innovation in the last 50 years has been made and analyzed with various bibliometric analysis techniques and visualization tools (network map, density, overlay, etc.) in the light of various bibliometric indicators. Depending on the purpose of the study, in this research, bibliometric analysis method and scientific field mapping technique were applied to approximately 50,000 scientific studies with the help of VOSviewer package program, using the Web Of Science Core Collection database in the last 50 years (1974-2023) for the literature review on the concept of innovation in the field of economics. In the results of the analysis, the general view of the innovation-themed international scientific studies in the field of economics (Year, Document Type, Publication Language, Open Access, Index Type, Publisher, Fund Agency) has been revealed. Publish in detail the results of citation analysis, co-citation, co-author, co-occurence and bibliographic coupling of innovation-related studies, sources, authors, institutions, countries, cited sources, authors and journals. Especially in recent years, innovation studies have been focused on Digitalization, Fintech, Covid-19, Digital Transformation, Corporate Innovation, Social Innovation, Green Innovation, Digital Economy, Augmented Reality, Smart Specialization, Bibliometric Analysis, etc. It has been concluded that the concepts are pioneering studies in innovation studies. Keywords: Economics, Innovation, Scientific Publication, Bibliometric Analysis, VOSviewer.