Value of M-Commerce Research: A Bibliometric Perspective

Research on m-commerce with entrepreneurial spirit continues to develop but is limited to one country and/or one field. From a bibliometric perspective, this study aims to visually study mapping and research trends in the field of m-commerce on an international scale. This study used bibliometric techniques with secondary data from Scopus. Analyze and visualize data using the VOSViewer program and the analyze search results function on Scopus. This study analyzed 3,770 scientific documents published from 1996 to 2020. According to research, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Upkar Varshney has the most active institutions and individual scientists in m-commerce research. Computer science and Lecture Notes in Computer Science were the most widely subject area and publication disseminated of m-commerce. There were nine categories of maps of collaborative researchers from around the world. Based on the identification of a collection of knowledge accumulated from over twenty-four years of publication, this research proposes a grouping of m-commerce research themes: Telecommunication, Application of commerce, Social networking, Sales, Electronic commerce, Technology, Smartphones, abbreviated as TASSETS research themes.