Bibliometric analysis of the performance of the use of european funds

The present paper aims to perform the bibliometric analysis of the literature on European funds. The funds are absorbed by the European Union, this absorption represents an opportunity to support economic growth and to reduce the development gap, which, in the conditions of the global recession, becomes a new challenge for Romania. Growth, competitiveness, workforce and improving the environment are the most important benefits of funding. The literature has been exploiting this theme since 1900 until today. 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, the biliometric analysis helps us to get an overview of the topic. With the help of the VOSviewer program we made scientific maps to show the field cooperation between the countries, as well as a scientific map of the keywords for publication. The obtained results show that this topic is not even a topical one is studied. The most cited journal is Regional Studies, with 984 citations, followed by Energy Policy. 7745 articles were identified in the WOS database between 1900 and 2021, which included 4895 research articles, 1850 proceedings paper, 116 reviews, 199 100 books, 594 early access. Of these, 4589 were published during the years 2010-2021, and the rest being published between 1975-2021. It is especially important to evaluate the quality of such a large number of research papers and to obtain valuable information.