HYPERION ECONOMIC JOURNAL

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• Ionuț ILIEȘ, PhD Student, Affiliation: University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, Romania;
• Sorin Nicolae BORLEA, PhD, Professor, Affiliation: University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics, Romania;
• Ioana Lavinia SAFTA (Pleșa), PhD Student, Affiliation: Babeș - Bolyai University of Cluj - Napoca, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Romania;

The present paper aims to perform a bibliometric analysis of the literature on European funds. The European Union members contracted the funds to support economic growth and reduce the development gap. Growth, competitiveness, workforce, and improving the environment are the most essential benefits of funding. The literature on the field of fund absorption has been exploited since 1900. The articles that formed the basis of the research were selected from the international Web of Science database. Following a bibliometric analysis of these articles through the VOSviewer program, we made scientific maps to show the field cooperation between the countries and a scientific map of the keywords for publication. The findings show that the most cited journals in the field of European funds are Regional Studies, with 984 citations, followed by Energy Policy. Several 7745 articles were identified in the WOS database between 1900 and 2021, which included 4895 research articles, 1850 proceedings papers, 116 reviews, 199 books, and 594 early access. Of these, 4589 were published between 2010 and 2021, and the rest were published between 1975 and 2021. It is essential to evaluate the quality of such a large number of research papers and to obtain valuable information.

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