This paper provides an overview on the state of art of research on social entrepreneurship and the establishment of this topic in the academic world. It uses scientometric methods, especially bibliometrics, in measuring the maturity of social entrepreneurship research. The empirical part reveals the increasing number of literature, the institutionalization of social entrepreneurship in seven dimensions, the emergence of thematic clusters, and methodological issue. The paper makes concrete suggestions on how to overcome methodological challenges at the boarder of advanced qualitative and early quantitative research designs. Using Harzing's 'Publish or Perish' software this article furthermore provides a ranking of the 20 most cited academic contributions in social entrepreneurship. Surprisingly, almost half of the most cited papers have not been published in journals but in books, rising doubts on the current (over-)rating of journal publications.
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机译：本文概述了社会企业家精神研究的最新状况以及该主题在学术界的确立。它使用科学计量学方法（尤其是文献计量学）来衡量社会企业家研究的成熟度。实证部分揭示了文学的不断增加，七个方面的社会企业家制度化，主题集群的出现和方法论问题。本文就如何在高级定性和早期定量研究设计方面克服方法挑战提出了具体建议。本文还使用Harzing的“ Publish or Perish”软件对社会企业家精神中被引用最多的20种学术贡献进行排名。令人惊讶的是，被引用最多的论文中几乎有一半没有在期刊中发表，而是在书籍中发表，这使人们越来越怀疑期刊出版物的当前（高估）程度。
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