Bibliometric research of the Pay-What-You-Want Topic

Abstract

AbstractPay-What-You-Want (PWYW), is a pricing strategy increasingly applied in many different industries, both profitable and not. This study aims to identify influential cited works in PWYW research, determine the current status, and indicate the extent to which influential works have shaped the field addressing this concern, a set of bibliometric analyses conducted in this paper. The analysis was carried out on 136 research papers published between 2009 and 2022 have been analyzed based on Web of Science Core Collection (WoS) results. In order to identify the most cited authors and works, the co-citation analysis was applied. To scrutinize the intellectual structure of the field, bibliometric coupling was applied, to show the network structure of the themes, co-word analysis was applied. Building upon the results, this study suggests future research paths.