Sharing with crowds : bibliometric insights into the role of emotions in crowdfunding

Hafeez, Saima (author), Drnovšek, Mateja (author)

In this paper, we provide an overview of the existing research on emotions in crowdfunding and integrate it using a bibliometric analysis of publication data from the decade 2013–2023. Our analysis includes a citation and cocitation analysis, a productivity analysis, a co-occurrence analysis, and a topic analysis based on abstracts. We find that the Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice are the most prominent journals publishing research at the intersection of emotions and crowdfunding. The coword analysis shows that current and frequently discussed topics are related to emotions, sentiment analysis, reward-based crowdfunding, machine learning, and blockchain. Furthermore, our results show a significant increase in interdisciplinary approaches that integrate psychological and economic perspectives to better understand backers’ behavior. Finally, we point to a gap in the understanding of the long-term effects of emotions on crowdfunding campaigns and suggest a possible direction for future studies.

• Language: English
• Keywords: bibliometrics, cocitation analysis, bibliographic coupling, co-occurrence analysis, science mapping, crowdfunding, emotions
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 25-49
• Numbering: Vol. 27, iss. 1, article no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-167870
• UDC: 658.152
• ISSN on article: 2335-4216
• DOI: 10.15458/2335-4216.1351
• COBISS.SI-ID: 228411395
• Publication date in RUL: 18.03.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Economic and business review
• Publisher: Univerza v Ljubljani, Ekonomska fakulteta
• ISSN: 2335-4216
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268649216

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: množično financiranje, investicije, bibliometrična analiza

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P5-0117-2018
• Name: Trajnostna konkurenčnost slovenskega gospodarstva v evropskem in globalnem okviru