LAPSE:2023.25524
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LAPSE:2023.25524
Science Mapping: A Scientometric Review on Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, and Conflict Resources during 1993−2020
March 28, 2023
Over the past few decades, the wealth of Africa has not made African wealthy. There is a voicing that Africa is cursed, whether richly poor or poorly rich. Sub-Saharan Africa is commonplace for political turbulence, as well as humanitarian and economic misery. In such a catastrophic situa-tion, political economics studies have focused on the Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, and Con-flict Resources in this area. A systematic scientometric analysis of this field would be beneficial but is currently lacking in the academic literature. Using VOSviewer and CiteSpace, this review fills the void by analyzing the 1783 articles published in the WoS SSCI Collection between 1993 and 2020 on the “Resource Curses”, “Dutch Diseases”, and “Conflict Resources”. The author dis-cusses recent papers with disruptive potential, references with the most robust citation explora-tions, and cooperation networks between authors and institutes. Three hotspots were detected: the causes and effects of the Resource curses; the interaction among the Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, and Conflict Resources; the factors that affect rent collection and regime resilience. While the literature on the “Resource curse” and “Dutch Disease” has been around longer, studies on “Conflict Resources” are picking up quickly. Conflict Resources were characterized by active citation exploration keywords and multiple active co-citation clusters, including possibly groundbreaking articles. There is a massive overlap between the three strings of literature, but each one has its emphasis.
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African countries, bibliometric analysis, CiteSpace, Conflict Resources, Dutch Diseases, Resource Curses
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Wong CS. Science Mapping: A Scientometric Review on Resource Curses, Dutch Diseases, and Conflict Resources during 1993−2020. (2023). LAPSE:2023.25524
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Wong CS: Department of Political Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China [ORCID]
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Energies
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14
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15
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4573
Year
2021
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2021-07-28
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1996-1073
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