Purpose Women entrepreneurship has grown significantly and is essential in the social and economic development of the Indian and global economies. Through extensive bibliographic analysis, this article aims to generate a comprehensive intellectual landscape of women entrepreneurship in India and presents research gaps that can help advance the field. Design/methodology/approach The study has employed bibliometric analysis and used 163 primary research papers published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals from 1993 to 2024. It has used performance analysis, bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis to synthesize the intellectual structure and emerging research frontiers in the domain of women entrepreneurship. Findings The analysis reveals the growth in the research articles, most prominent authors and top-cited journals in the domain of women entrepreneurship in India. Through bibliographic coupling and co-citation analysis, we highlight a few thematic clusters that have been explored by scholars, such as institutional influence, entrepreneurial intentions, capability building, etc. Furthermore, we identify a few emerging areas that require scholarly attention, such as the impact of government schemes and emerging technologies, intranational regional differences in women entrepreneurship, etc. Originality/value The originality of the article lies in the examination of the growth of the domain of women entrepreneurship in India in the last forty years and brings forward the intellectual structure of the domain.
Tripathi et al. (Mon,) studied this question.