Table 9 Top articles in each cluster based on fractional counting method

Socioeconomic outcomes of microfinance

1

Banerjee et al. (2015b)

295

16

1

Banerjee et al. (2015a)

226

7

1

Bruhn and Love (2014)

114

13

1

Crépon et al. (2015)

113

8

1

Angelucci et al. (2015)

110

10

1

Allcott (2015)

93

7

1

Arouri et al. (2015)

88

6

1

Tarozzi et al. (2015)

74

17

1

Kaboski and Townsend (2012)

67

15

1

Schicks (2014)

40

18

1

Ngo and Wahhaj (2012)

28

7.00

Social performance or mission drift

2

Louis et al. (2013)

62

17

2

Vanroose and D'Espallier (2013)

61

20

2

D’Espallier et al. (2013)

60

14

2

Canales (2014)

54

13

2

Cornée and Szafarz (2014)

43

7

2

Van Gool et al. (2012)

37

7

2

Al-Azzam et al. (2012)

32

17

2

Bocher et al. (2017)

29

2

2

Lebovics et al. (2016)

29

20

2

Augustine (2012)

25

3

Group lending, social network and social capital

3

Attanasio et al. (2015)

104

19

3

Banerjee (2013)

84

48

3

Gabor and Brooks (2017)

83

6

3

Feigenberg and Pande (2013)

82

13

3

Field et al. (2013)

82

15

3

Wei et al. (2016)

38

7

3

Donou-Adonsou and Sylwester (2016)

36

9

3

Yuan and Xu (2015)

27

7

3

De Quidt et al. (2016)

25

22

Poverty alleviation, entrepreneurial activities and financial services innovation

4

Bruton et al. (2013)

157

10

4

Moss et al. (2015)

117

10

4

Zahra and Wright(2016)

97

9

4

Alvarez and Barney (2014)

89

22

4

Josefy et al. (2017)

52

8

4

Diniz et al. (2012)

48

4

4

Chliova et al. (2015)

44

35

4

Berger and Nakata (2013)

31

4

4

Alvarez et al. (2015)

30

16

Gender and thematic frontiers

5

Barasinska and Schäfer (2014)

64

7

5

Roodman and Morduch (2014)

58

18

5

Mallick (2013)

48

7

5

Gleasure and Feller (2016)

43

15

5

Deininger and Liu (2013)

39

8

5

Duvendack and Palmer-Jones (2012)

38

23

5

Willy and Holm-Müller (2013)

36

1

5

Mendes-Da-Silva et al. (2016)

25

13