Meticulously Study Using Bibliometric Analysis on Factors That Affecting the Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises

Abstract

This study aims to meticulously analyze the performance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and examine the factors that affected their growth and performance in the last 5 years. This study investigated 2302 out of 5243 articles. The researcher collected data from the Scopus database. Vosviewer software was utilized in the paper to look at investigate several aspects of scientific output, including paper analysis, prominent authors, influential publications, affiliations, and countries. The software was also used for keyword co-occurrence analysis, thematic mapping, co-citations, and authorship analysis. The results showed that the most productive year was 2024, with 407 publications. Singh, Sanjay Kumar is the most influential author based on total citations, and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is the most prominent organization. Additionally, Italy is the leading country in this area. Moreover, the top-cited article “Green Innovation and Environmental Performance: The Role of Green Transformational Leadership and Green Human Resource Management. The research has obtained three themes’ clusters of performance in SMEs. The implications of this research inform and direct researchers on the current state of study in the field of performance literature in SMEs. It also outlines future research directions in this field. This study focuses on analyzing and mapping the existing literature on the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), providing a comprehensive scientific overview of current trends, key themes, and insights within this field.