The Bibliometric Analysis of the Studies on The Bibliometric Analysis of the Studies on Business Cycles

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze researches conducted on business cycles in international literature in terms of bibliometric characteristics. The works, including articles, books, book chapters, etc., published in Web of Science, one significant bibliographic database of international literature, were examined in study. On 1 March 2021, 601 open-access publications from 4650 academic publications on Web of Science database were examined based on their "headings." Bibliometric analysis was carried out with "VOSviewer" software. As a result of study, it was determined that the United States was the most publishing country on business cycles concept, the most of studies were in English language, "Federal Reserve System" and "National Bureau of Economic Research" were the most-publishing institutions, CI Plosser and DR Osborn were the most-publishing authors. It was determined that most publications in field took place in journal of "Monetary Economics." Total keywords number of studies was 999. Business Cycle phrase was the most prevalent among keywords. Executing necessary intervention by determining leading indicators of business cycles causing fluctuations in economies, globalization's existence based on business cycle, and simultaneous high trade rate require a commercial synchronization. If synchronized economies have business cycles, they will make optimal decisions in all areas of macroeconomics