Table 11 Microfinance research trends based on the occurrence of the top 15 keywords in the 260 WoS indexed articles published between 1:2018 and 3:2021 according to the fractional counting method
Keywords | Occurrences | Total link strength |
|---|---|---|
Microfinance | 167 | 150.00 |
Microcredit | 104 | 99.00 |
Impact | 84 | 83.00 |
Poverty | 63 | 62.00 |
Gender/women | 38 | 38.00 |
Entrepreneurship | 35 | 35.00 |
Performance | 35 | 35.00 |
Credit programs | 33 | 33.00 |
Bangladesh | 25 | 25.00 |
Access | 24 | 24.00 |
Models | 22 | 22.00 |
Empowerment | 20 | 20.00 |
Microfinance evidence | 18 | 17.00 |
Determinants | 17 | 17.00 |
Growth | 16 | 16.00 |