| 1 | Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Data Collection Design and Implementation 1998?2003 | Small Business Economics | 2005 | 1,013 |
| 2 | The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship | Small Business Economics | 2008 | 997 |
| 3 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth: Evidence from GEM data | Small Business Economics | 2005 | 889 |
| 4 | Perceptual Variables and Nascent Entrepreneurship | Small Business Economics | 2005 | 825 |
| 5 | The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on National Economic Growth | Small Business Economics | 2005 | 742 |
| 8 | Nascent Entrepreneurship and the Level of Economic Development | Small Business Economics | 2005 | 697 |
| 9 | What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research | Small Business Economics | 2007 | 676 |
| 10 | Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions | Small Business Economics | 2008 | 664 |
| 11 | Entrepreneurial ecosystem elements | Small Business Economics | 2019 | 640 |
| 12 | The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach | Small Business Economics | 2017 | 634 |
| 13 | The Value of Human and Social Capital Investments for the Business Performance of Startups | Small Business Economics | 2004 | 520 |
| 14 | Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe | Small Business Economics | 2007 | 516 |
| 15 | Gazelles as job creators: a survey and interpretation of the evidence | Small Business Economics | 2009 | 512 |
| 16 | Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems | Small Business Economics | 2017 | 506 |
| 17 | The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem | Small Business Economics | 2017 | 504 |
| 18 | Equity retention and social network theory in equity crowdfunding | Small Business Economics | 2016 | 490 |
| 19 | Twenty-five years of research on institutions, entrepreneurship, and economic growth: what has been learned? | Small Business Economics | 2018 | 476 |
| 21 | The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship | Small Business Economics | 2013 | 466 |
| 22 | Open innovation practices in SMEs and large enterprises | Small Business Economics | 2012 | 463 |
| 23 | Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey | Small Business Economics | 2009 | 461 |
| 24 | Networks, Firm Size and Innovation | Small Business Economics | 2004 | 453 |
| 25 | Opportunity Identification and Pursuit: Does an Entrepreneur’s Human Capital Matter? | Small Business Economics | 2007 | 433 |
| 27 | The Effect of Business Regulations on Nascent and Young Business Entrepreneurship | Small Business Economics | 2007 | 430 |
| 28 | Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers | Small Business Economics | 2008 | 429 |
| 29 | Entrepreneurship, Economic Growth and Public Policy | Small Business Economics | 2006 | 424 |
| 30 | Building an integrative model of small business growth | Small Business Economics | 2007 | 424 |
| 31 | Innovation and diffusion in small firms: Theory and evidence | Small Business Economics | 1994 | 423 |
| 32 | Access (Not) Denied: The Impact of Financial, Human, and Cultural Capital on Entrepreneurial Entryin the United States | Small Business Economics | 2006 | 417 |
| 34 | New players in entrepreneurial finance and why they are there | Small Business Economics | 2017 | 402 |
| 35 | Innovation and productivity in SMEs: empirical evidence for Italy | Small Business Economics | 2009 | 398 |
| 36 | The emergence of the global fintech market: economic and technological determinants | Small Business Economics | 2018 | 396 |
| 37 | How Does Probability of Innovation Change with Firm Age? | Small Business Economics | 2004 | 376 |
| 38 | Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: a generational perspective | Small Business Economics | 2010 | 373 |
| 41 | Small firm growth, access to capital markets and financial structure: Review of issues and an empirical investigation | Small Business Economics | 1996 | 351 |
| 42 | Creating good public policy to support high-growth firms | Small Business Economics | 2011 | 343 |
| 43 | Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration and Technological Change | Small Business Economics | 2005 | 339 |
| 44 | Personality characteristics and the decisions to become and stay self-employed | Small Business Economics | 2013 | 336 |
| 45 | Entrepreneurship, institutional economics, and economic growth: an ecosystem perspective | Small Business Economics | 2018 | 336 |
| 46 | In search of the meaning of entrepreneurship | Small Business Economics | 1989 | 335 |
| 47 | Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs–new evidence from an experimentally validated survey | Small Business Economics | 2007 | 331 |
| 48 | A systematic literature review of entrepreneurial ecosystems in advanced and emerging economies | Small Business Economics | 2020 | 325 |
| 49 | Entrepreneurial processes in social contexts: how are they different, if at all? | Small Business Economics | 2011 | 319 |
| 50 | R&D investment and financing constraints of small and medium-sized firms | Small Business Economics | 2009 | 317 |