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Authors

• Kourosh Fathi ¹
• Amir Karimi ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Studies, Farhangian University, Hakim Ferdowsi Campus, Alborz

² M.Sc. student of World History, Tabriz University,Tabriz.Iran

Abstract

The field of economic history is a branch of history that was less studied before the 20th century, but in recent years it has been noticed by researchers. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out scientometric research for a better and more systematic understanding of research in this field, in this regard, the goal of advanced research is to analyze and illustrate scientific productions in the field of economic history. The research method is scientometric type, which was done with Excel and VOS Viewer software. The statistical population of the research was 6514 scientific articles from Science Direct scientific database between 1999 and 2023, which were extracted and analyzed. After entering the data from the scientific database into the software, 418 nodes, 11 clusters and 3284 links were identified by repeating 8 times. The research results show that; The trend of publication of articles is upward, among journals, research in economic history and among the words economic growth, economic history, innovation, institutions, economic development, growth, human capital and immigration are top in terms of repetition. The categories of economic growth, development, institution, regulations, profitability and business cycle are topics that, despite being very popular, are no longer as important in this trend as in the last decade, and the categories of monetary policies, energy, mining, natural resources, government capacity and Covid- 19 were among the hottest categories.

Keywords

• Science of history
• economic history
• scientometrics
• scientific map